The National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals has endorsed the Consumer Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills Act of 2020, surprise medical bills legislation developed by the House Ways and Means Committee.

In a letter to the committee’s chairman and ranking member, NASH wrote that

NASH supports the bill’s protection of patients from surprise medical bills for care they receive from out-of-network providers; we support the concept of patients receiving an “Advance Explanation of Benefits”; and most of all, we support a mediation process to be used when insurers and providers do not agree on appropriate payments that requires those parties to engage in good-faith negotiations; that employs mediated dispute resolution when those negotiations do not lead to agreement on payments; and that excludes from that mediation the use of specific, standard benchmark rates.

See the entire NASH letter here.