Becker's Healthcare May 23, 2019
Senate health committee leaders released bipartisan discussion draft legislation May 23 aimed at improving healthcare price transparency, ending surprise medical bills and lowering prescription medication costs, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Five things to know:
1. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R. Tenn., who chairs the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has been working on the legislation with the committee’s ranking member, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.
2. Under the Lower Health Care Costs Act of 2019, patients would only be responsible for the in-network amount when they receive out-of-network emergency care or non-emergency care from out-of-network providers at in-network facilities.
3. The legislation offers three options to end surprise medical bills. These include a benchmark for the amount...
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