Provides relative to billing by noncontracted facility-based physicians. Prohibits surprise billing by noncontracted, facility-based physicians. Proposed law defines “surprise billing” as any bill received by an enrollee or insured for any services provided at a base healthcare facility that is contracted with the enrollee’s or insured’s health
insurance issuer but the facility-based physician providing those services is not contracted with the health insurance issuer and seeks to collect amounts in excess of the amounts authorized byproposed
law. Proposed law prohibits a facility-based physician from surprise billing or attempting to collect from or collecting from an enrollee or insured an amount in excess of the amount paid by the issuer to
contracted providers for the same or similar services at that facility or, if there are no contracted providers of the same or similar type at that facility, the amount paid by the issuer to contracted providers for the same or similar services provided in the same parish as the base healthcare facility.