Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have joined forces to propose a law they say will help fix a problem experienced by at least 40% of Americans — surprise medical bills.
are frequently the result of patients receiving treatment from a health care provider that they didn't know was not covered by their health insurance. In a bill they will introduce to the Senate Thursday, co-sponsors Democrat Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire and Republican Bill Cassidy of Louisiana want to make health care providers negotiate these out-of-network charges with the insurance companies before billing the patient.
If the insurance company and the health care provider can't reach an agreement, the bill stipulates that an independent arbiter would step in and choose a price for the provided service based on the market rate in the state. Nicole Briggs had an emergency appendectomy. Because she didn't know her surgeon was out-of-network, she got a surprise medical bill for almost $5,000 that resulted in a lien on her home and her salary docked by 25 percent each month.In 2015, the state of New York passed a bill modeled on baseball's system. It went into effect two years ago. As of March, it had been used to settle about 2,000 disputes,.
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