The effort still faces political headwinds at a time when Congress is focused on helping hospitals and physicians on the front lines of the pandemic
“Covid-19 certainly brings the issue of surprise billing to the forefront, but the public health crisis also makes doing any policy that hospitals don't like more difficult politically,” said Loren Adler, associate director for the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy.may partly hinge on whether lawmakers separately decide to force insurers to fully cover all coronavirus treatment at no cost to patients.
The White House has barred all hospitals or doctors who receive any part of that $100 bailout from sending bills beyond what patients would owe through their insurance plan. “Patients and consumer advocates agree we must end surprise medical billing,” Alexander tweeted on Wednesday. “It’s time to act.”
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