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Podcast: Relentless Health Value
Episode: EP307: The Surprise Billing Legislation: Its Impact on Providers, Hospitals, Self-insured Employers, and (Most of All) Patients, With Loren Adler
Description: In this health care podcast, I speak with Loren Adler, who is the associate director of USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy and has a particular focus on surprise billing. I wanted to talk to Loren about the surprise billing legislation that is going into effect on 1/1/22. I will let Loren explain, but, in short, this legislation removes the patient from the mix. If a provider decides to send a surprise bill, the patient will just pay the co-pay or coinsurance they normally would have if the provider had been in network. Then, it's up to the...