Representatives Kevin Hern (OK-01) and Annie Kuster (NH-02) introduced the Facilitating Accountability in Reimbursements Act (FAIR Act) to harmonize billing practices in off campus hospital outpatient facilities to reflect the site of care.
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“The introduction of this legislation is another important bipartisan milestone in the effort to address anti-competitive hospital practices that drive up healthcare prices,” said Alex Schriver, executive director of Better Solutions for Healthcare.
“This measure will end dishonest hospital billing and lower prices for employers and consumers by ensuring that patients are billed for the services they receive at the location where they receive them. This reform is one of the most important steps we can take to defend patients and consumers, and we urge lawmakers to take action this Congress.”
Dishonest billing is when a hospital secretly reclassifies a doctor’s office it owns as a hospital setting in order to charge more money.
PRESS RELEASE: Better Solutions for Healthcare Endorses Bipartisan Legislation to Crack Down on Dishonest Hospital Billing
Employers in Indiana rose up and demanded their legislators address hospital dishonest billing, and the Indiana Senate delivered: Legislation ending dishonest billing passed and is headed to the governor’s desk to be signed into law.