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Mon Nov 10

• Doctors fight balance-billin g ban on out-of-network costs | American Medical News 11.10.08: California physicians are waging a campaign to block balance-billin g regulations they say ignore health insurers' habitual underpayments for out-of-network care.

Tue Oct 14

• Lawsuit Targets New California Rules Barring Balance Billing | California Healthline 10.14.08: On Sept. 26, the California Medical Association, the California chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians and others filed a lawsuit in Sacramento Superior Court challenging new state regulations barring balance billing, the Los Angeles Daily Journal reports (George, Los Angeles Daily Journal, 10/13).

Sun Sep 14

• Insurance Balance Billing: Have You Overpaid?

Thu Sep 11

• California Legislature Approves Elements of Health Care Overhaul | California Healthline 09.09.08: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) is considering health care reform legislation, including some bills that are similar to elements of his health care reform proposal that a state Senate committee rejected earlier this year, according to KQED's "The California Report."

Wed Sep 10

• Medical Bills You Shouldn't Pay

Wed Apr 2

• State drafts rules to regulate emergency room payments | Los Angeles Times 4.1.08: Patients are often billed by doctors to make up the difference from insurer reimbursements . The so-called balance billing practice would be banned.

Fri Mar 21

• Balance billing' plays key role in debate over health care | Capitol Weekly 3.20.08: The phenomenon known as "balance billing" has not figured prominently in the debate over health care reform, but it is gaining importance as the on-again, off-again negotiations continue.

Mon May 28

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