Surprise Emergency Room Bill

If I were a politician part of my platform would be a "Patients bill of rights"

1. The garbage about "we bill your insurance as a courtesy" is a no longer allowed. If patient has valid insurance and you are in network, the responsibility is with the doctors office to deal with the insurance, who they have the contract with.

2. Single point billing - if you go to Hospital ABC, your bill will be from Hospital ABC. You will not get 5 bills from 3 different providers. It's up to the hospital, doctor's office, whatever, to distribute the funds.

3. Medical debt is forbidden to be included on a credit report.

a couple of other pieces but you get the idea...