Surprise Bill

A “surprise bill” is a bill to a patient for a service delivered to the patient by a provider that the patient did not know was “out-of-network” in the patient’s health insurance plan. Surprise bills can occur when a patient is in a hospital; even though the hospital is in-network, one or more of the physicians that provide services during the hospital stay may not be employed by the hospital and may not have a contract with the patient’s health insurance plan.

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