Surprise billing banned for providers that get CARES Act grants

Modern Healthcare: The White House announced Thursday that providers receiving grants from the $100 billion aid fund in Congress' third stimulus package will be banned from balance billing patients for COVID-19 treatment.

Providers that receive grant funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act will have to certify that they will not try to collect more money from COVID-19 patients than the patients would have to pay if services had been in-network.

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