General Resources
Just getting up to speed on surprise medical bills? On this page you can explore the underlying cause of this complex issue.
- “Surprise” Out-of-Network Medical Bills (JAMA, 2020)
- New National Poll: Voters Want Permanent Surprise Billing Ban (Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing, 2020)
- Voter Attitudes Regarding the Surprise Medical Billing Debate (Arnold Ventures, 2019)
- Surprise Medical Bills, the High Cost of Emergency Department Care, and the Effects on Patients (JAMA, 2019)
- Surprise Medical Bills: An Overview of the Problem and Approaches to Address It (American Academy of Actuaries, 2019)
- The Underlying Causes of Surprise Medical Bills (Commonwealth Fund, 2019)
- Addressing Surprise Medical Bills Without Raising the Cost of Health Care (RAND, 2019)
- Surprise! It’s a $164,000 Bill for Your Heart Attack (Commonwealth Fund, 2019)
- Surprise Billing – No Surprise In View Of Network Complexity (Health Affairs Blog, 2019)
- Teasing Apart the Threads to the Surprise Billing Debate (FAIR Health, 2019)
- Stopping Surprise Medical Bills – Federal Action Is Needed (Health Affairs Blog, 2017)
- Out-of-Network Emergency-Physician Bills – An Unwelcome Surprise (New England Journal of Medicine, 2016)
- The Out-of-Network Benefit – Problems and Policy Solutions (Inquiry, 2012)