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May 20—New state laws designed to protect patients from being hit with steep out-of-network medical bills may contribute to higher health care costs and premiums, some researchers warn.
The law that protects people from getting surprise medical bills went into effect in January, and we're just starting to see the effects of the new legislation. Surprise medical bills often come ...
In states with a law preventing or restricting surprise billing, commercially insured consumers who receive a surprise bill "may be able to obtain assistance from their state Department of Insurance, though state law protections may not cover all surprise billing situations, and may not cover people with insurance through their job."
It's estimated that about 1 in 5 emergency visits and 1 in 6 inpatient admissions will trigger a surprise bill. ... there wasn’t going to be surprise billing legislation passed." ... In Other News.
[1] [2] The group is funded by Blackstone (owner of TeamHealth) and KKR (owner of Envision Healthcare) and has spent more than $57 million on advertisements opposing the legislation to restrict surprise billing, at the same time cutting pay and benefits for emergency room doctors and other medical workers.
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Surprise medical bills are nothing new in the U.S., and they've become so commonplace in the 13 years since the landmark Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law that Congress recently passed ...
During the 2012 session, one of the several bills Cadman sponsored was a bill urging state agencies to seek Colorado-specific solutions "in lieu of federal regulations whenever possible". HB 12-1175 would have focused on finding solutions to local problems on a local level, instead of applying a "one-size fits all" idea from federal solutions ...