On December 9, the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Hospital Association (AHA) (the Associations) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the proposed regulations...more
On October 28, the Texas Medical Association (TMA), a trade association that represents more than 55,000 physicians and medical students, filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas challenging key portions of CMS’s...more
On September 30, U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury, as well as the Office of Personnel Management, issued another interim final rule — “Requirements Related to Surprise Billing: Part II”...more
On July 1, U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury, as well as the Office of Personnel Management, issued an interim final rule implementing the No Surprises Act (Act) and requesting...more
Congress has been working for months to pass legislation protecting patients from surprise medical bills that arise when insured patients unknowingly receive out-of-network (OON) care, usually when receiving emergency medical...more
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Surprise Medical Bills
In September 2018, we wrote about a draft U.S. Senate bill aimed to protect patients from surprise medical bills, the “Protecting Patients from Surprise Medical Bills Act.” ...more