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Lawmakers debate 'no‑surprises' ambulance billing; insurers and providers clash over reimbursement floor
Summary
Senate Bill 245, a 'no surprises' ambulance‑billing measure to ban balance billing and set reimbursement guardrails for out‑of‑network ground ambulance care, produced contested testimony from ambulance providers and insurers about costs and premium impacts.
Senate Bill 245, a measure to prohibit balance billing by ground ambulance providers and to set payment guardrails for out‑of‑network ambulance services, generated a lengthy committee hearing with opposing testimony from ambulance providers, fire chiefs, hospitals and insurers.
Sponsor Senator Suzanne Prentiss described the bill as a consumer‑protection measure aligned with federal discussions about ambulance billing. Under the bill’s draft text, emergency ambulance rides would be protected from balance billing; insurers would reimburse out‑of‑network ground ambulance providers either at locally‑approved municipal rates (where municipalities…
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