Healthcare DIVE November 22, 2022
House lawmakers expressed their discontent with a final rule on surprise billing and urged federal regulators to make changes.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Ma., and ranking member Kevin Brady, R-Texas, sent a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and other department heads again expressing disappointment with a much-contested section of the surprise billing ban.
The lawmakers “are severely disappointed to find that the August 2022 final rule violates the No Surprises Act in the same ways as before,” Neal and Brady said in a letter last week.
In an initial draft of the ban on surprise bills, regulators outlined how payment disputes would be resolved between payers and providers. The initial draft instructed third-party arbiters to...
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