New Law Reducing Surprise Medical Billing Still Has Gaps

Under the "No Surprises Act," everyone who takes care of you at an emergency room will be in-network. But the law won't help every person.

We are in year one of the federal "No Surprises Act." The law that protects people from getting surprise medical bills went into effect in January, and we're just starting to see the effects of the new legislation.

Surprise medical bills often come up in emergencies when patients don’t have the opportunity to choose their providers and end up receiving out-of-network care, or when patients go to an in-network facility for a scheduled procedure but not every provider at the facility is in-network.  

This can definitely be confusing to patients, so here's an example: