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Just heard that California passed AB 72 which eliminates surprise billing from an out-of-network provider at an in network facility:
Audio: Measure to prevent 'surprise' medical bills heads to Gov. Brown | 89.3 KPCC
https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/...to-end-surprise-out-of-network-medical-bills/
I believe Jerry brown still needs to sign it
Bill text:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB72
This seems like a huge deal to me.
Audio: Measure to prevent 'surprise' medical bills heads to Gov. Brown | 89.3 KPCC
https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/...to-end-surprise-out-of-network-medical-bills/
I believe Jerry brown still needs to sign it
Bill text:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB72
This bill would require a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after July 1, 2017, to provide that if an enrollee or insured receives covered services from a contracting health facility, as defined, at which, or as a result of which, the enrollee or insured receives covered services provided by a noncontracting individual health professional, as defined, the enrollee or insured would be required to pay the noncontracting individual health professional only the same cost sharing required if the services were provided by a contracting individual health professional, which would be referred to as the “in-network cost-sharing amount.” The bill would prohibit an enrollee or insured from owing the noncontracting individual health professional at the contracting health facility more than the in-network cost-sharing amount if the noncontracting individual health professional receives reimbursement for services provided to the enrollee or insured at a contracting health facility from the health care service plan or health insurer.
This seems like a huge deal to me.