Health Affairs August 12, 2020
Surprise medical bills continue to threaten consumers’ financial stability at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the potential for out-of-network billing by health care providers. While the Trump administration has taken some emergency measures to try to reduce the risk of surprise medical bills for COVID-19 patients, these protections are both incomplete and temporary.
In the meantime, action in Congress appears to have stalled despite strong prior momentum and bipartisan, bicameral support for comprehensive protections. Congress has not yet included surprise medical bill protections in any COVID-19 relief packages as Democratic leadership continues to debate the most appropriate mechanism for doing so, and Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reportedly has little interest in including these protections in...
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