Stakeholders Square Off As Congress Preps To Tackle ‘Surprise Billing’

Insurers, beneficiary advocates, retailers and employers floated guiding principles they hope will drive an expected bipartisan effort by the incoming Congress to tackle “surprise medical billing,” and urged lawmakers to end surprise medical billing and standardize payments to out-of-network physicians. Shortly after the guidelines came out Monday (Dec. 10), major hospital lobby groups issued a statement offering to work with lawmakers to find common ground solutions and blamed poor insurance coverage for surprise billing. Out-of-network billing is widely expected to...