JD Supra December 31, 2020
On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed Congress’ most recent stimulus bill into law, covering $900 billion in economic relief for businesses and individuals impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The law addresses new substantive requirements for health plans and health care providers, including new restrictions on non-participating provider billing (so-called “surprise medical bills”), rules related to the transparency of health care costs and quality of care information, and other health care consumer protections. We briefly discussed these provisions in the firm’s overview alert on the new law.
This alert addresses the price and quality transparency provisions in more depth.
The transparency provisions of the stimulus bill amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Internal Revenue Code,...
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