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- Air Ambulance Services in the United States: A Study of Private and Medicare Claims (FAIR Health, 2021)
- Association of Surprise-Billing Legislation with Prices Paid to In-Network and Out-of-Network Anesthesiologists in California, Florida, and New York (JAMA Internal Medicine, 2021)
- Are Surprise Billing Payments Likely to Lead to Inflation in Health Spending? (The Commonwealth Fund, 2021)
- Arbitration Over Out-of-Network Medical Bills: Evidence From New Jersey Payment Disputes (Health Affairs, 2021)
- Analysis of the No Surprises Act (Congressional Budget Office, 2021)
- Addressing Surprise Billing by Setting Payment Standards for Out-of-Network Providers (Commonwealth Fund, 2020)
- A Polling Surprise? Americans Rank Unexpected Medical Bills at the Top of Family Budget Worries (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2020)
- A Targeted Approach to Surprise Medical Billing (Galen Institute, 2019)
- A Texas-Sized Problem – How to Limit Out-of-Control Surprise Medical Billing (Center on Public Policy Priorities, 2017)
- Addressing Surprise Medical Bills Without Raising the Cost of Health Care (RAND, 2019)
- Advocate’s Guide to Addressing Payment in Balance Billing Legislation (Community Catalyst, 2019)
- Air Ambulances – 10 Year Trends in Costs and Use (Health Care Cost Institute, 2019)
- Air Ambulance: Available Data Show Privately-Insured Patients Are at Financial Risk (U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2019)
- American Heart Association Supports Key Provisions in the Lowering Health Care Costs Act of 2019 (American Heart Association, 2019)
- An Examination of Surprise Medical Bills and Proposals to Protect Consumers from Them (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2019)
- Analysis of Impacts on Out-of-Network Arbitration in New York and New Jersey (MAXIMUS, 2020)
- Analyzing New Bipartisan Federal Legislation Limiting Surprise Medical Bills (Health Affairs Blog, 2018)
- Analyzing The House E&C Committee’s Bipartisan Surprise Out-Of-Network Billing Proposal (Health Affairs Blog, 2019)
- Are Air Ambulances Truly Flying Out of Reach? Surprise Billing Policy and the Airline Deregulation Act (Health Affairs Blog, 2019)
- ASA Endorses New Bipartisan Surprise Medical Bill Proposal (American Society of Anesthesiologists, 2019)
- Assessment of Out-of-Network Billing for Privately Insured Patients Receiving Care in In-Network Hospitals (JAMA Internal Medicine, 2019)
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- Balance Billing – Current Legal Landscape and Proposed Federal Solutions (Congressional Research Service, 2019)
- Balance Billing – How Are States Protecting Consumers from Unexpected Charges (Center on Health Insurance Reforms, 2015)
- Balance Billing by Health Care Providers – Assessing Consumer Protections Across States (Commonwealth Fund, 2017)
- Balanced Billing Protection Act Arbitration Proceedings: Annual Report (Washington Insurance Commissioner, 2021)
- Balanced Billing Protection Act Arbitration Proceedings: Annual Report (Washington Insurance Commissioner, 2020)
- Balance Billing Protections: Senate Bill 1264 Biennial Report (Texas Department of Insurance, 2020)
- Banning Surprise Bills, Part 1: A New Rule On Independent Dispute Resolution (Health Affairs, 2021)
- Banning Surprise Bills, Part 2: Good Faith Estimates, External Review, And More (Health Affairs, 2021)
- Banning Surprise Bills: Biden Administration Issues First Rule on the No Surprises Act (Health Affairs Blog, 2021)
- Breaking Down The Bipartisan Senate Group’s New Proposal To Address Surprise Billing (Health Affairs Blog, 2019)
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- Court Sets Aside Key Parts on No Surprises Act Rule (Health Affairs, 2022)
- California Compromise to Stop Surprise Medical Bills is Working and is the Best Solution for a Federal Fix (Community Catalyst, 2019)
- California Saw Reduction in Out-of-Network Care from Affected Specialties after 2017 Surprise Billing Law (Brookings Institute, 2019)
- Can We Stop Surprise Medical Bills and Strengthen Provider Networks? California Did (American Journal of Managed Care, 2019)
- Cancer Patients Need Protection from Surprise Medical Bills (American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, 2019)
- Chairman Richard E. Neal, U.S. House Ways & Means Committee, Letter re: Surprise Billing Legislation (Sept. 2019)
- Changes in Emergency Physician Service Prices after Connecticut’s 2016 Surprise Billing Law (Brookings, 2021)
- Commentary: Surprise Billing Legislation Should Lower Consumer Costs and Federal Costs (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2019)
- Comparing Federal Legislation on Surprise Billing (Commonwealth Fund, 2019)
- Congress Needs to Act Immediately to Stop Surprise Medical Bills, Says National Campaign (Families USA, 2019)
- Congress Should Force the Medical-Industrial Complex to End Surprise Bills (RealClear Policy, 2019)
- Congress’ Current Approach to Surprise Medical Billing Could Have Unintended Consequences (Heritage Foundation, 2019)
- Consumer Reports Urges House Energy and Commerce Committee to Protect Patients from Surprise Medical Bills (Consumer Reports, 2019)
- Consumers, Businesses, and Insurance Providers Come Together to Protect Americans from Surprise Medical Bills (2018)
- Cost Estimate: H.R. 5826, the Consumer Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills Act of 2020 (Congressional Budget Office, 2020)
- Cost Estimate: H.R. 2328, including the No Surprises Act (Congressional Budget Office, 2019)
- Cost Estimate: S.1895, Lower Health Care Costs Act (Congressional Budget Office, 2019)
- Cost Estimate: S.1895, Lower Health Care Costs Act (Congressional Budget Office, 2019)
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- Letter to the Air Ambulance and Patient Billing Advisory Committee (National Association of Insurance Commissioners, 2021)
- Letter to Congress from Businesses and Labor Unions (2020)
- Letter to Congress (National Association of Insurance Commissioners, 2020)
- Letter to Congressional Committees (House Education and Labor, House Energy and Commerce, House Ways and Means, Senate HELP), Congressional Leadership (National Association of Insurance Commissioners, 2020)
- Letter to House Members from State Insurance Commissioners on Air Ambulances (Nov. 2019)
- Letter to Congress from Business Coalition (Business Group on Health, 2019)
- Letter to Senate Members from State Insurance Commissioners on Air Ambulances (Sept. 2019)
- Letter to Congress from Hospital Coalition (Apr. 2019)
- Letter to Congress from Hospital Coalition (Feb. 2019)
- Letter to Congress from Hospital Coalition (Jun. 2019)
- Letter to Congress from Multi-Stakeholder Coalition (Including American Benefits Council, AHIP, BCBSA, National Business Group on Health, etc.) (2019)
- Lower Health Care Costs Act Would Address Surprise Medical Billing (American Enterprise Institute, 2019)
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- One In Five Inpatient Emergency Department Cases May Lead to Surprise Bills (Health Affairs, 2017)
- Out-of-Network Air Ambulance Bills: Prevalence, Magnitude, and Policy Solutions (Milbank Quarterly, 2020)
- Out-of-Network Billing and Negotiated Payments for Hospital-Based Physicians (Health Affairs, 2019)
- Out-of-Network Bills for Privately Insured Patients Undergoing Elective Surgery with In-Network Primary Surgeons and Facilities (JAMA, 2020)
- Out-of-Network Emergency-Physician Bills – An Unwelcome Surprise (New England Journal of Medicine, 2016)
- Out‐of‐Network Physicians – How Prevalent Are Involuntary Use and Cost Transparency (Health Services Research, 2012)
- Out-of-Network Spending: Why Growing Attention Is Focused On A Small Share of Medical Spending (Health Affairs, 2020)
- Out-of-Network Spending Mostly Declined in Privately Insured Populations with a Few Notable Exceptions from 2008 to 2016 (Health Affairs, 2020)
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- Patient Experiences with Involuntary Out-of-Network Care (Health Services Research, 2013)
- Patients Protected, Providers Paid: Data from Three Years of California’s Compromise to Stop Surprise Medical Bills (Health Access, 2019)
- Patients’ Success in Negotiating Out-of-Network Bills (American Journal of Managed Care, 2016)
- Policies to Address Surprise Billing Can Affect Health Insurance Premiums (American Journal of Managed Care, 2020)
- President Donald J. Trump Wants to Protect Patients and Their Families From Surprise Billing (White House, 2019)
- Prevalence and Characteristics of Surprise Out-of-Network Bills from Professionals in Ambulatory Surgery Centers (Health Affairs, 2020)
- Private Equity and Powerful Physician Groups Raise Another Distraction (Health Affairs Blog, 2019)
- Private Equity and Surprise Medical Billing (Institute for New Economic Thinking, 2019)
- Private Equity-Owned Air Ambulances Receive Higher Payments, Generate Larger and More Frequent Surprise Bills (Brookings, 2021)
- Proposed Rule on No Surprises Act Focuses on Data Collection and Enforcement (Health Affairs, 2021)
- Protecting Consumers from Surprise Ambulance Bills (Commonwealth Fund, 2021)
- Protecting Consumers from Surprise Medical Bills: Considerations for Governors (National Governors Association, 2019)
- Protecting Patients from Surprise Medical Bills (America’s Health Insurance Plans, 2019)
- Putting Surprise Billing Protections Into Practice: Biden Administration Releases First Set of Regulations (The Commonwealth Fund, 2021)
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- Recent Guidance to Implement the No Surprises Act (Health Affairs, 2022)
- Recommendations for Implementing the No Surprises Act (Brookings, 2021)
- Real World Consequences of the Qualifying Payment Amount in the No Surprises Act (Health Care Cost Institute, 2021)
- Regulating Out-of-Network Hospital Emergency Prices: Problem and Potential Benchmarks (Health Affairs Blog, 2020)
- Report to the Governor and Legislature: Out-of-Network Consumer Protection, Transparency, Cost Containment and Accountability Act (New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance, 2019)
- Rep. Ruiz’s Arbitration Proposal For Surprise Billing (H.R. 3502) Would Lead To Much Higher Costs And Deficits (Health Affairs Blog, 2019)
- Resolving Surprise Medical Bills (Health Affairs Blog, 2019)
- Restraining Balance Billing by Air Ambulance Providers: CHIR Keeps Up with Federal Advisory Committee and Regulatory Actions (CHIRblog, 2021)
- Rulemaking For Health Care Affordability: Implementing The No Surprises Act (Health Affairs, 2021)
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- The Six Provider Lawsuits Over the No Surprises Act: Latest Developments (Health Affairs, 2022)
- Surprise Medical Bills: New Protections for Consumers Take Effect in 2022 (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2021)
- Summary of the No Surprises Act (Commonwealth Fund, 2021)
- Surprise Billing Protections: Help Finally Arrives for Millions of Americans (Commonwealth Fund, 2020)
- Senate Bill 1264: Six-Month Preliminary Report (Texas Department of Insurance, 2020)
- Solutions for Air Ambulance Surprise Billing in Holding Pattern (JAMA, 2020)
- Solving Surprise Medical Billing (American Enterprise Institute, 2019)
- Splitting the Baby: Design Considerations for Federal Balance Billing Legislation (Health Affairs Blog, 2019)
- Stalled Federal Efforts to End Surprise Billing – The Role of Private Equity (New England Journal of Medicine, 2020)
- State Policies for Addressing Surprise Medical Bills: Recent Trends Provide a Roadmap for Federal Policymakers (American Action Forum, 2020)
- State Approaches to Mitigating Surprise Out-of-Network Billing (Brookings, 2019)
- State Efforts to Protect Consumers from Balance Billing (Commonwealth Fund, 2019)
- State Surprise Billing Laws in the 2019 Session (Families USA, 2019)
- States Are Taking New Steps to Protect Consumers from Balance Billing, But Federal Action Is Necessary to Fill Gaps (Commonwealth Fund, 2019)
- States Lead on Surprise Medical Billing Protections, Congress Poised to Follow (National Academy for State Health Policy, 2019)
- Stopping Surprise Medical Bills – Federal Action Is Needed (Health Affairs Blog, 2017)
- Stopping Surprise Medical Bills – Federal Action Is Needed (Health Affairs Blog, 2017)
- Support Protecting Patients from Surprise Medical Bills But Oppose the Surprise Medical Billing Framework (California Medical Association, 2019)
- “Surprise” Out-of-Network Medical Bills (JAMA, 2020)
- Surprise Billing – 7 Principles to Fix a Broken System (American Medical Association, 2019)
- Surprise Bills, Benchmarks, and the Problem of Indexation (Health Affairs Blog, 2019)
- Surprise Billing – No Surprise In View Of Network Complexity (Health Affairs Blog, 2019)
- Surprise Billing Principles (American Hospital Association, 2019)
- Surprise Billing: Choose Patients Over Profits (Health Affairs Blog, 2019)
- Surprise Medical Bills, the High Cost of Emergency Department Care, and the Effects on Patients (JAMA, 2019)
- Surprise Medical Bills (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2016)
- Surprise Medical Bills Survey (Consumer Reports, 2015)
- Surprise Medical Bills Take Advantage of Texans (Center on Public Policy Priorities, 2014)
- Surprise Medical Bills: An Overview of the Problem and Approaches to Address It (American Academy of Actuaries, 2019)
- Surprise Out-of-Network Medical Bills During In-Network Hospital Admissions Varied by State and Medical Specialty, 2016 (Health Care Cost Institute, 2019)
- Surprise! It’s a $164,000 Bill for Your Heart Attack (Commonwealth Fund, 2019)
- Surprise! Out-of-Network Billing for Emergency Care in the United States (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2018)
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- The Unfinished Business of Air Ambulance Bills (Health Affairs Blog, 2021)
- Taking the Disputes Out of Dispute Resolution: Lessons from State Balance Billing Laws (Center on Health Insurance Reforms, 2021)
- Taking the Surprise Out of Medical Bills (BlueCross BlueShield Association, 2019)
- Teasing Apart the Threads to the Surprise Billing Debate (FAIR Health, 2019)
- The No Surprises Act and Informed Financial Consent (New England Journal of Medicine, 2021)
- The No Surprises Act: Implications for States (CHIR Presentation to National Association of Insurance Commissioners, 2021)
- The Out-of-Network Consumer Protection, Transparency, Cost Containment, and Accountability Act Data Reporting (New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance, 2021)
- The Out-of-Network Benefit – Problems and Policy Solutions (Inquiry, 2012)
- The Potential Pitfalls of Combating Surprise Billing (Cato Institute, 2019)
- The Price and Spending Impacts of Limits on Payments to Hospitals for Out-of-Network Care (RAND, 2020)
- The Underlying Causes of Surprise Medical Bills (Commonwealth Fund, 2019)
- To Address Surprise Medical Billing, Use What Works (Health Affairs Blog, 2019)
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