Senate HELP Committee should pass Lower Health Care Costs Act

“Sen. Lamar Alexander’s leadership in the Senate has produced the best opportunity for bipartisan legislative progress in health care before the 2020 election.

The Lower Health Care Costs Act is a bipartisan package of common-sense reforms which fix some of the most frustrating features of the current health system.

It tackles surprise medical bills by ensuring emergency services, including air ambulances, are always considered in network and count toward a patient’s deductible. It also holds patients harmless from surprise medical bills which occur when a patient chooses an in-network hospital but is then treated by an out-of-network specialty physician who works at the hospital.”