Welcome to another year of health policy research. In the first month of 2023, CHIR reviewed studies...
On December 9, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced the membership of the Adviso...
It's officially fall, and along with the new season came an autumnal bounty of new health policy res...
As of January 15th, the open enrollment period has ended in most states. A record number of consumer...
As we enter 2022, consumers are now protected from many of the worst surprise medical bills. The No ...
Under the No Surprises Act, enacted in December of 2020, federal regulators face a balancing act as ...
Seven states in 2020 were able to break a longstanding stalemate and enact protections against surpr...
The CHIR team is excited to transition into spring, as with the warmer weather has come some great n...
The No Surprises Act of 2020 sets up a new national framework to protect patients from surprise out-...
The U.S. Congress enacted the No Surprises Act in 2020 to protect patients from surprise out-of-netw...
Congress included the No Surprises Act in the omnibus spending bill that was passed and signed into ...
Congress enacted the "No Surprises Act" as part of the $900 billion COVID-19 relief and government s...
We at Georgetown CHIR look back at this tumultuous, tragic, and eventful year and are thankful we ha...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the risk that patients will experience surprise bills for out-of...
The $175 billion Provider Relief Fund prohibits participating providers from balance billing COVID-1...
This February, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe reviewed new research on health care costs and utilization, surpr...
As Congress and a number of states craft legislation to protect consumers from surprise out-of-netwo...
The thorniest issue in pending legislation to protect consumers from surprise medical billing is how...
Congressional leaders are racing to meet a self-imposed May deadline for passing legislation to prot...
To kick off 2020, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe reviews studies on out-of-network billing from hospital-based ...
In Congress and state legislatures across the country, policymakers are debating fixes to surprise m...
In their latest piece for the Commonwealth Fund's To the Point blog, Jack Hoadley, Beth Fuchs, and K...
A recently released report by the Health Care Cost Institute finds that the average price of an air ...
We are now two weeks into Open Enrollment for 2020 health insurance coverage. As consumer look at pr...
The U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has a new analysis of legislation that would protect pati...
Legislation to protect consumers from surprise medical bills is advancing on a bipartisan basis in b...
CHIR experts have launched a new project to provide policymakers with a dedicated, independent resou...
This August, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe summarized helpful resources on premiums and cost-sharing for worki...
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Air ambulance charges are a significant source of surprise out-of-network bills for many patients, w...
The U.S. Congress is advancing legislation to protect patients from surprise medical bills. Yet cons...
This June, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe caught up on policy studies and proposals on surprise medical bills,...
New York's 2014 law to protect consumers from surprise out-of-network medical bills has been touted ...
Spring has arrived, and the research is blooming! This March, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe was buzzing around...
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Although health care costs and surprise medical bills top the list of voters' concerns this election...
Florida is the latest state to enact legislation protecting its residents for unexpected medical bil...
Although Maryland is among the handful of states that regulate balance billing for out-of-network si...