{"id":14434,"date":"2019-11-05T08:52:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T13:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14434"},"modified":"2019-11-05T08:52:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T13:52:20","slug":"as-congress-works-to-curb-surprise-medical-bills-n-y-s-fix-gets-examined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14434","title":{"rendered":"As Congress Works To Curb Surprise Medical Bills, N.Y.\u2019s Fix Gets Examined"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Rachel Bluth for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

Lobbying campaigns\u00a0and\u00a0legislative battles\u00a0have been underway for months as Congress tries to solve the problem of surprise billing, when patients face often exorbitant costs after they unknowingly receive care from an out-of-network doctor or hospital.<\/p>\n

As Congress considers various plans and negotiates behind the scenes, data is trickling in from states that have been test-driving proposed solutions.<\/p>\n

New York was among the first to tackle the issue. In 2015, it passed a surprise billing law that uses \u201cbaseball-style\u201d arbitration as a way to settle payment disputes between insurance companies and doctors. Under this approach, which is used in Major League Baseball to negotiate salaries (hence the name), each party submits a proposed dollar amount to the arbiter, who then chooses one as the final monetary award.\u00a0 Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n

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