{"id":19167,"date":"2021-11-23T10:59:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T15:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19167"},"modified":"2021-11-23T10:59:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T15:59:50","slug":"becerra-says-surprise-billing-rules-force-doctors-who-overcharge-to-accept-fair-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19167","title":{"rendered":"Becerra Says Surprise Billing Rules Force Doctors Who Overcharge to Accept Fair Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michael McAuliff for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Overpriced doctors and other medical providers who can\u2019t charge a reasonable rate for their services could be put out of business when new rules against surprise medical bills take effect in January, and that\u2019s a good thing, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra told KHN, in defending the regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed rules represent the Biden administration\u2019s plan to carry out the No Surprises Act, which Congress passed to spare patients from the shockingly high bills they get when one or more of their providers unexpectedly turn out to be outside their insurance plan\u2019s network.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/xavier-becerra-surprise-billing-rules-hhs-report-price-negotiation-arbitration\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michael McAuliff for Kaiser Health News) Overpriced doctors and other medical providers who can\u2019t charge a reasonable rate for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-price-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19167","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=19167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19168,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19167\/revisions\/19168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}