Quantitative Resources
Just getting up to speed on surprise medical bills? On this page you can access key resources with the latest data on surprise medical bills.
- Support Protecting Patients from Surprise Medical Bills But Oppose the Surprise Medical Billing Framework (California Medical Association, 2019)
- California Saw Reduction in Out-of-Network Care from Affected Specialties after 2017 Surprise Billing Law (Brookings Institute, 2019)
- Disputes Over Dispute Resolution: Analyses of New York and California-Style Surprise Billing Protections Offer Divergent Pictures (Center on Health Insurance Reforms, 2019)
- Patients Protected, Providers Paid: Data from Three Years of California’s Compromise to Stop Surprise Medical Bills (Health Access, 2019)
- Cost Estimate: H.R. 2328, including the No Surprises Act (Congressional Budget Office, 2019)
- New York’s Surprise Out-of-Network Protection Law: Report on the Independent Dispute Resolution Process (New York State Department of Financial Services, 2019)
- Surprise Medical Bills: An Overview of the Problem and Approaches to Address It (American Academy of Actuaries)
- Assessment of Out-of-Network Billing for Privately Insured Patients Receiving Care in In-Network Hospitals (JAMA Internal Medicine, 2019)
- Cost Estimate: S.1895, Lower Health Care Costs Act (Congressional Budget Office, 2019)
- An Examination of Surprise Medical Bills and Proposals to Protect Consumers from Them (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2019)
- Surprise Out-of-Network Medical Bills During In-Network Hospital Admissions Varied by State and Medical Specialty, 2016 (Health Care Cost Institute, 2019)
- Air Ambulance: Available Data Show Privately-Insured Patients Are at Financial Risk (U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2019)
- Surprise! Out-of-Network Billing for Emergency Care in the United States (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2018)
- One In Five Inpatient Emergency Department Cases May Lead to Surprise Bills (Health Affairs, 2017)
- Variation in the Ratio of Physician Charges to Medicare Payments by Specialty and Region (JAMA, 2017)
- Variation in Emergency Department vs Internal Medicine Excess Charges in the US (JAMA Internal Medicine, 2017)
- Surprise Medical Bills (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2016)
- Patients’ Success in Negotiating Out-of-Network Bills (American Journal of Managed Care, 2016)
- Surprise Medical Bills Survey (Consumer Reports, 2015)
- Patient Experiences with Involuntary Out-of-Network Care (Health Services Research, 2013)
- Out‐of‐Network Physicians – How Prevalent Are Involuntary Use and Cost Transparency (Health Services Research, 2012)