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Arizona has issued a new law that went into affect January of this year. Here is a link to SB1441 https://www.azleg.gov/
Become familiar with it and do not sign away your rights. The days of trying your best to make sure everyone is in network and then receiving a large balance billed invoice for out of network rates on the anesthesiologist or radiologists could be gone, so know your rights. No more big surprises! Here is the AZ insurance dispute resolution help link. https://insurance.az.
Those in California had similar coverage since July 2017. See this link for the details. https://leginfo.
However, recently there have been people taken by ambulance to Zuckerberg San Francisco Hospital which turns out was an emergency room who did not serve those who have private insurance. Therefore, people still had surprise bills. California is now working on new legislation to fix this issue. Use this link to follow the new bill. https://leginfo.
You may want to avoid that hospital if you are in the right state of mind to know where the ambulance is taking you, at least until a new state law is passed.
For those in Colorado there is currently a regulation that if you have DOI on your card you are supposed to be held harmless when going to a out of network facility, patients are to be charged in network rates only. However, there is no law saying the provider cannot bill you; therefore the billings continue and many people pay them. There is currently a pending legislation to fix that oversight. Keep an eye on the bill here. https://leg.
For those in Washington there is something similar that has passed the house and senate. It is currently on the governor's desk for signature. Here is the link to the actual bill https://app.leg.wa.gov/
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