Surprise Medical Billing
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鈥
America鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 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 鈥
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 (鈥渢he departments鈥) 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鈥
This letter provides comment on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 guidance documents implementing the No Surprises Act鈥檚 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-鈥
This webinar focuses on the regulations pertaining to the ban on balance billing in certain out-of-network scenarios, the process providers may use to obtain patient consent to balance bill, and the calculation of the qualifying payment amount, among other provisions.