Majority of states lack laws to protect patients from balance billing

(By Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review)

Most states do not have laws that protect patients from balance billing by an out-of-network physician for care delivered in an emergency department or in-network hospital, according to an analysis of laws in all 50 states and the District of Columbia by researchers at Georgetown University. Continue reading article here…

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