out-of-network medical bills News

In most markets, when a buyer and a seller can’t settle on a price, they walk away. Medicine is different. Doctors and insurance companies often sort out who owes what only after a patient has been treated, especially in emergencies. …

New York hospital patients would no longer wake from surgery with the bad surprise of big bills from an anesthesiologist outside their insurance networks under legislation unveiled this week by the New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration. Instead, they would …