AMA: surprise billing legislation will hold patients harmless

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The American Medical Association said today that insurers are intentionally muddying the waters about the impact of surprise billing legislation – a bipartisan compromise designed to protect patients – approved recently by the House Energy & Commerce Committee.

America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and others have incorrectly suggested that the bill would increase the financial burden on patients, ignoring the fact that the legislation uses the same approach for protecting patients from unanticipated coverage gaps as other proposals that were publicly supported by the industry.

 

 

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