
My wife's story: Anatomy of an insane health care billing system
Typically, patients, and their employers, don't know the cost of health care or are given inaccurate estimates. Then come the surprise medical bills and costly overruns of employers' benefits budgets. Here's a look at the health care cost transparency problem and how people are trying to solve it.
While Medicare-for-All might be grabbing headlines, the health care policy debate that could have a bigger impact on consumers in the near future could be surprise billing.
State and federal lawmakers are looking at the issue, President Trump has addressed it, a group of ER doctors released a proposal in D.C. and new legislative proposals are expected later this year.
There is bipartisan support to address this issue, but efforts are hindered by how complicated it is. “Surprise billing” is an overly broad term that applies to a dozen scenarios, which makes it difficult for consumers and policymakers alike to understand what, exactly, new regulations might do.
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