gao_reports: GAO-26-107169

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GAO-26-107169	Private Health Insurance: Provider Participation and Payments for Selected Services Before and After the No Surprises Act	2026-02-19	GAO-26-107169			The No Surprises Act prohibits out-of-network health care providers from sending "surprise bills" to patients with private health insurance. These bills can occur, for example, when a patient gets emergency care at an out-of-network hospital. In-network claims for emergency medicine physicians declined from 2019 to 2021. Since the act took effect in 2022, these claims have rebounded. This may mean that, since the act, more...								https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-107169