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Subcommittee splits on ambulance billing: keeps higher-rate bill alive, advances lower-rate option
Summary
After extensive testimony from EMS chiefs, fire officials and insurers, the subcommittee voted to retain the higher-reimbursement proposal (HB725) for further work and to advance a lower-rate bill (HB316) in subcommittee; both measures would limit balance billing but differ on insurer reimbursement levels.
New Hampshire lawmakers spent a lengthy portion of the Commerce and Consumer Affairs subcommittee meeting debating how to limit ambulance balance-billing and how much private insurers should reimburse ambulance providers.
Two competing approaches: The subcommittee considered two bills. House Bill 316 would limit balance billing and set a reimbursement level tied to a percentage of Medicare rates chosen by the bill—s analyst; supporters described it as a data-driven, actuarial approach. House Bill 725 would also remove balance billing but set a higher statutory reimbursement level intended by ambulance providers to cover operational costs.
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