Stakeholders Encourage Senate To Change Surprise Billing Fix

Ahead of the Senate health committee's mark-up of surprise billing legislation a former GOP solicitor general is questioning the constitutionality of the bill’s benchmark-payment rate policy, and stakeholder groups are urging the committee to change its methodology to a baseball-style arbitration process. On Wednesday (June 26) the Senate health committee will mark up its health care cost-cutting package, which includes a surprise billing fix that sets a benchmark payment rate for out-of-network services at the median in-network rate for that...