Stakeholder Resources
Many health care stakeholders—ranging from hospitals to insurance companies to patient advocates—have weighed in on surprise medical bill issues. This page identifies some of the key positions that stakeholders have taken.
- Letter to Congress from Businesses and Labor Unions (2020)
- Letter to Congress from Multi-Stakeholder Coalition (Including American Benefits Council, AHIP, BCBSA, National Business Group on Health, etc.) (2019)
- Letter to Congress from Business Coalition (Business Group on Health, 2019)
- Consumers, Businesses, and Insurance Providers Come Together to Protect Americans from Surprise Medical Bills (2018)
- Protecting Patients from Surprise Medical Bills (America’s Health Insurance Plans, 2019)
- Taking the Surprise Out of Medical Bills (BlueCross BlueShield Association, 2019)
- Support Protecting Patients from Surprise Medical Bills But Oppose the Surprise Medical Billing Framework (California Medical Association, 2019)
- Letter to Congress from Hospital Coalition (Feb. 2019)
- Letter to Congress from Hospital Coalition (Apr. 2019)
- Letter to Congress from Hospital Coalition (Jun. 2019)
- Framework To Protect Emergency Patients From Out-Of-Network Billing Issues (American College of Emergency Physicians, 2019)
- Surprise Billing Principles (American Hospital Association, 2019)
- Surprise Billing – 7 Principles to Fix a Broken System (American Medical Association, 2019)
- ASA Endorses New Bipartisan Surprise Medical Bill Proposal (American Society of Anesthesiologists, 2019)
- Letter to Congress from Patient and Consumer Advocates (2019)
- Advocate’s Guide to Addressing Payment in Balance Billing Legislation (Community Catalyst, 2019)
- California Compromise to Stop Surprise Medical Bills is Working and is the Best Solution for a Federal Fix (Community Catalyst, 2019)
- Patients Protected, Providers Paid: Data from Three Years of California’s Compromise to Stop Surprise Medical Bills (Health Access, 2019)
- Congress Needs to Act Immediately to Stop Surprise Medical Bills, Says National Campaign (Families USA, 2019)
- Commentary: Surprise Billing Legislation Should Lower Consumer Costs and Federal Costs (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2019)
- Families Need Congress to Stop Surprise Medical Bills Now (Families USA, 2019)
- Hold Patients Harmless from Surprise Medical Bills (Community Catalyst, 2019)
- Ending Surprise Balance Billing: Steps to Protect Patients and Reduce Excessive Health Care Costs (Community Catalyst, 2019)
- American Heart Association Supports Key Provisions in the Lowering Health Care Costs Act of 2019 (American Heart Association, 2019)
- Cancer Patients Need Protection from Surprise Medical Bills (American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, 2019)
- Consumer Reports Urges House Energy and Commerce Committee to Protect Patients from Surprise Medical Bills (Consumer Reports, 2019)