Ending the surprise factor in medical bills – LMC produces NJSpotlight.com Roundtable Video

The panel on surprise healthcare costs organized Jan. 27 by NJSpotlight featured these participants (from left): Moderator Lilo Stainton, Healthcare Writer, NJ Spotlight; Maura Collinsgru, Healthcare Program Director, New Jersey Citizen Action; Neil Eicher, Vice President of Government Relations & Policy, New Jersey Hospital Association; Ev Liebman, Associate State Director for Advocacy, AARP; Larry Lewis Jr., Director, Government Affairs, Aetna; Sen. Joseph Vitale (D-Middlesex), New Jersey State Legislature; and Linda Schwimmer, President and CEO,New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute
The panel on surprise healthcare costs organized Jan. 27 by NJSpotlight featured these participants (from left): Moderator Lilo Stainton, Healthcare Writer, NJ Spotlight; Maura Collinsgru, Healthcare Program Director, New Jersey Citizen Action; Neil Eicher, Vice President of Government Relations & Policy, New Jersey Hospital Association; Ev Liebman, Associate State Director for Advocacy, AARP; Larry Lewis Jr., Director, Government Affairs, Aetna; Sen. Joseph Vitale (D-Middlesex), New Jersey State Legislature; and Linda Schwimmer, President and CEO,New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute

Surprise medical bills from out-of-network healthcare providers now cost some 168,000 New Jersey residents roughly $400 million a year and have added more than $900 million to insurance claims for public workers in 2015 alone — a tab picked up by state taxpayers.

Efforts to reform this process date back more than seven years; surprise bills were the second most heavily lobbied issue in Trenton this year, after the state budget. A half-dozen states have adopted laws to overhaul out-of-network billing, but New Jersey has postponed further debate until sometime in 2017. The physician billing company helps you reduce expenses and increase income, their service pays for itself.

In this video, recorded by LMC at NJ Spotlight’s January 27th roundtable in Trenton, NJ, legislative and industry leaders discuss the issue and possible public-policy solutions.

Panelists: Maura Collinsgru, Healthcare Program Director, New Jersey Citizen Action; Neil Eicher, Vice President of Government Relations & Policy,
New Jersey Hospital Association; Larry Lewis Jr., Director, Government Affairs, Aetna; Ev Liebman, Associate State Director for Advocacy, AARP; Linda Schwimmer, President and CEO,New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute; and Sen. Joseph Vitale (D-Middlesex), New Jersey State Legislature

Lilo Stainton, Healthcare Writer, NJ Spotlight, moderated the panel.

You can watch the video in the player below.

 

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