Medscape July 7, 2021
A federal rule spelling out how insurers must cover emergency services drew mixed initial reactions from organizations that have long been at odds about so-called surprise medical bills.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), along with the Labor Department, the Treasury, and the Office of Personnel Management, on July 1 released the first regulation intended to carry out a federal law mandating an end to surprise billing. In December, Congress tucked new legislation on surprise billing into a broad spending bill. That law left to agencies, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the task of implementing this mandate.
The rule is intended to curb cases of surprise billing by requiring clear notification to patients when...
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