Commentary: Surprise Billing Legislation Should Lower Consumer Costs and Federal Costs
End Notes
[1] Kaiser Health News and NPR, Bill of the Month, https://khn.org/news/tag/bill-of-the-month/; Lindsey Bomnin and Stephanie Gosk, “Surprise medical bills lead to liens on homes and crippling debt,” NBC News, March 19, 2019, https:/www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/surprise-medical-bills-lead-liens-homes-crippling-debt-n984371.
[2] Loren Adler et al., “State approaches to mitigating surprise out-of-network billing,” Brookings Institution, February 19, 2019, https://www.brookings.edu/research/state-approaches-to-mitigating-surprise-out-of-network-billing/.
[3] Zack Cooper, Fiona Scott Morton, and Nathan Shekita, “Surprise! Out-of-Network Billing for Emergency Care in the United States,” Yale University, March 2018, https://isps.yale.edu/sites/default/files/publication/2018/03/20180305_oon_paper2_tables_appendices.pdf; Bob Herman, “Private equity’s thirst for health care providers,” Axios, June 12, 2018, https://www.axios.com/private-equity-thirst-for-health-care-providers-1528737485-195192d5-db93-4c57-9a28-4b7af191d42e.html; Advisory Board, “Private equity keeps buying up health care companies. Should patients worry?” June 20, 2018, https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2018/06/20/private-equity; Julie Creswell, Reed Abelson, and Margot Sanger-Katz, “The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills,” New York Times, July 24, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/upshot/the-company-behind-many-surprise-emergency-room-bills.html.
[4] Loren Adler, Matthew Fiedler, and Benedic N. Ippolito, “Network matching: An attractive solution to surprise billing,” American Enterprise Institute, May 23, 2019, http://www.aei.org/publication/network-matching-an-attractive-solution-to-surprise-billing/.
[5] S. 1895, Lower Health Care Costs Act, Congressional Budget Office, July 16, 2019, https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55457.
[6] Loren Adler et al., Comments on No Surprises Act, May 28, 2019, https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Energy-and-Commerce-Discussion-Draft-Comments.pdf.
[7] Loren Adler et al., “Rep. Ruiz’s Arbitration Proposal for Surprise Billing (H.R. 3502) Would Lead to Much Higher Costs and Deficits,” Health Affairs, July 16, 2019, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/usc-brookings-schaeffer-on-health-policy/2019/07/16/rep-ruizs-arbitration-proposal-for-surprise-billing-h-r-3502-would-lead-to-much-higher-costs-and-deficits/.
[8] Adler et al., “State Approaches,” op. cit.
[9] John Tozzi, “Air Ambulances Are Flying More Patients Than Ever, and Leaving Massive Bills Behind,” Bloomberg, June 11, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-11/private-equity-backed-air-ambulances-leave-behind-massive-bills.
[10] Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz, “Politicians Tackle Surprise Bills, but Not the Biggest Source of Them: Ambulances,” New York Times, July 22, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/upshot/ambulance-surprise-medical-bills-law.html.
[11] Adler et al., “State Approaches,” op. cit.