H.R. 5826: Consumer Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills Act of 2020

CBO Score

$-627,000,000

Date of Report

Tue February 11th, 2020

CBO Report Details

Legislation Details

116th Congress

To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and title XI of the Social Security Act to prevent certain cases of out-of-network surprise medical bills, strengthen health care consumer protections, and improve health care information transparency, and for other purposes.

Sponsor: Rep. Richard Neal — D — MA

Establishes patient protections from surprise medical billing and establish a process to resolve disputes between health care providers and insurers that are unable to reach agreement on payments for out-of-network health care. In determining the most reasonable rates, dispute resolution entities would be instructed to look to the health plan’s median payment rate for in-network rate care.

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