Surprise Medical Billing
The Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury and the Office of Personnel Management (“the departments”) Sept. 10 released proposed rules implementing certain provisions of the No Surprises Act related to enforcement, air ambulance transparency, and agent and broker…
The No Surprises Act established new patient protections against balance billing in certain circumstances, as well as put into place a number of other provisions that will change how providers and health plans engage with patients and each other with respect to price and coverage transparency, as…
America’s hospitals and health systems support patient protections in the No Surprises Act, but the law and associated regulations offer only a partial cure, writes Ashley Thompson, AHA’s senior vice president for public policy analysis and development.
Come January 1, 2022, patients will be protected from certain types of unexpected medical bills. America’s hospitals and health systems strongly support these new patient protections that are included in the No Surprises Act.
Hospitals and health systems have long advocated for protecting patients from certain unexpected medical bills while preserving their access to care.
Laurie Bodenheimer Ali Khawar
Associate Director …
The AHA submits comments to the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury, as well as the Office of Personnel Management, on the first interim final regulations implementing the No Surprises Act.
The Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury (“the departments”) Aug. 20 released a set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) related to provisions in the No Surprises Act and the Transparency in Coverage final rule. As requested several times by the AHA, the departments…
This letter provides comment on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ guidance documents implementing the No Surprises Act’s provisions related to notice and consent and public disclosure.
In this webinar, we continue our conversation from July 21st on the recently released interim final regulations implementing certain provisions of the No Surprises Act. We focused on our proposed input to the federal government on the regulations implementing balance billing in certain out-of-…