Surprise Billing Regulations: Impact on Out-of-Network Providers | K&L Gates LLP
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On 1 July 2021, the United Stated Office of Personnel Management, and the Departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services (collectively, the Departments) issued an Interim Final Rule 1 (the IFR) implementing the No Surprises Act, 2 enacted to ban surprise medical bills effective 1 January 2022. For out-of-network providers, the IFR bars health care providers who are not contracted to health plans from billing patients more than would be paid for in-network services in emergencies and in other specified nonemergency...