New North Dakota law aims to avoid huge bills for out-of-network air ambulance rides
North Dakota insurance regulators, responding to consumers who have complained about receiving bills averaging $55,341 for air ambulance flights not covered...
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Florida legislators looking to close immigrant comp loophole
The second-highest ranking member of the Florida Senate pledged a legislative review of a state law that has allowed injured undocumented...
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Homeowner protections for flood coverage hit snag
Bipartisan efforts to add homeowner protections and other reforms to the federal flood insurance program have hit a snag in a...
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Protection against surprise health costs advance in New Jersey
A state Senate committee Monday approved a long-awaited bill to protect thousands of New Jersey residents who get socked every year...
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Nasty surprise bills prohibited by new California law when people visit facilities in their insurance network
Before Kevin Powers underwent lung cancer surgery last October, his girlfriend, Agi Orsi, meticulously checked and double-checked to be sure his...
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Irish ‘tolerance’ of lying for cash must end, says business group
There is a “cultural tolerance” in the judiciary and among certain elements of the citizenry in relation to telling lies for...
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Majority of states lack laws to protect patients from balance billing
Most states do not have laws that protect patients from balance billing by an out-of-network physician for care delivered in an...
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Pennsylvania patients would be shielded from surprise ‘balance bills’
A pair of bills receiving bi-partisan support would protect patients from so-called “balance-billing” — when a patient receives an extra bill...
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Florida policymakers urge crackdown on assigning of benefits
Florida’s insurance officials are considering moves to rein in assignments after the Legislature again failed to take action. The procedure allows...
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Bill to protect Mass. patients from out-of-network abuses
When you go to the hospital and get a procedure done, you may not be concerned if you have health insurance....
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