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Instant Insights / Health Care Cost Transparency, Surprise Billing, and the Employee Benefits Industry

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.

Surprise billing: the U.S. needs better definitions

Here are some proposed terms and definitions that might make creating, passing and implementing “surprise billing” legislation easier.

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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.

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