{"id":13462,"date":"2019-06-20T10:09:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T14:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13462"},"modified":"2019-06-20T10:09:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T14:09:58","slug":"senate-surprise-billing-proposal-features-payment-benchmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13462","title":{"rendered":"Senate surprise-billing proposal features payment benchmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Kelly Gooch for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Senate health committee leaders have\u00a0introduced\u00a0a bipartisan legislative package that protects patients from surprise medical bills by banning out-of-network deductibles in emergencies, establishing a benchmark for health plan-provider payment disputes and ending unexpected air ambulance expenses.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/senate-surprise-billing-legislation-features-payment-benchmark.html\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/US-Senate-Logo-700x525.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7797\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/US-Senate-Logo-700x525-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/US-Senate-Logo-700x525-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/US-Senate-Logo-700x525.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Kelly Gooch for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Senate health committee leaders have\u00a0introduced\u00a0a bipartisan legislative package that protects patients from surprise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-legislative-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13463,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13462\/revisions\/13463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}