States Are Taking New Steps to Protect Consumers from Balance Billing, But Federal Action Is Necessary to Fill Gaps

This year has seen increased reporting on the issue of balance billing and a flurry of state-level action  to solve it. In their latest post for the Commonwealth Fund’s To the Point blog, CHIR’s Jack Hoadley, Kevin Lucia and Maanasa Kona take a closer look at the protections against balance billing enacted by the latest set of states to tackle the issue and find that state approaches to solving this problem are evolving. Continue reading →

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