In October, 2018, Consumer Reports joined with Families USA to share our support for the “Protecting Patients from Surprise Medical Bills Act.”
This legislation would ban surprise medical bills from out-of-network providers who treat patients who visit in-network facilities, and restrict insurers from charging more than in-network cost sharing when patients receive out-of-network care due to no fault of their own. Importantly, the legislation would also set a payment standard for how insurers reimburse out-of-network providers in surprise billing situations.