Surprise Medical Billing
Patients should not be balance billed for emergency services, or for services obtained in any in-network facility when the patient could reasonably have assumed that the providers caring for them were in-network with their health plan.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., and Ranking Member Kevin Brady, R-Texas, this morning released legislative text of the Consumer Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills Act of 2020, the committee’s proposal to address surprise medical bills.
The House Ways and Means Committee favorably reported out, as amended, the Consumer Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills Act (H.R. 5826), AHA-supported legislation to address surprise medical bills.
The House Education and Labor Committee voted 32-13 to report out an amended version of the Ban Surprise Billing Act (H.R. 5800), legislation to address surprise medical bills. The bill relies on a median in-network rate to resolve out-of-network payments.
The AHA expressed support for the Consumer Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills Act of 2020, bipartisan legislation released last week by leaders of the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Ways and Means markup is Feb. 12; Education and Labor markup is Feb. 11
Two House committees – Ways and Means, and Education and Labor – this week will mark up their own legislation to address surprise medical bills. The Ways and Means markup is Feb. 12 and the Education and Labor markup…
Two House committees – Ways and Means, and Education and Labor – this week will mark up their own legislation to address surprise medical bills. The Ways and Means markup is Feb. 12 and the Education and Labor markup is Feb. 11.
AHA comments to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor on provisions of the Ban Surprise Billing Act that will be marked up this week.
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack responds to the proposal from the House Ways and Means Committee over surprise medical billing.
The AHA is pleased to support the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means legislation, the Consumer Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills Act of 2020.