American College of Emergency Physicians

Urge your legislators to cosponsor legislation to enforce the No Surprises Act
As recently reported in the ACEP 911 Weekly Update, executives from the largest health insurance companies in the country were recently summoned by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and Committee on Ways and Means for back-to-back hearings examining affordability and rising health care costs. ACEP submitted a statement for the record to both committees detailing a wide variety of bad behaviors by insurers, emphasizing persistent violations of the No Surprises Act and abuse of the independent dispute resolution (IDR) process, downcoding practices, and continued erosion of the federal prudent layperson standard—practices that threaten the viability of emergency medicine and patient access to care.

Now, we need your help in "striking while the iron is hot" by reaching out to your legislators to ask them to cosponsor the “No Surprises Act Enforcement Act” (H.R. 4710/S. 2420). This important bipartisan legislation will help address bad insurer behavior by holding them accountable for continued gaming of the No Surprises Act.

Although ACEP's letter outlined many issues that need to be addressed regarding bad behaviors by insurers, urging support and passage of this legislation will address some of more egregious practices that are directly threatening EM and access for patients.

We have developed talking points on some of the other behaviors mentioned above that you can incorporate into any communications with your legislators now or in the future.

Please use the editable draft email provided to send messages to your U.S. Representative and U.S. Senators.

 

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