Good-faith cost estimate requirement takes effect July 1

As reported previously, the Indiana General Assembly passed several measures related to health care costs, transparency and patient protections in 2020. One requires that all health care practitioners provide a good faith estimate of the total price they will charge for a nonemergency health care service upon a patient’s request. The law takes effect July 1, and ISMA has created several documents to help members comply with the requirement.

These resources include:

Practitioner Good Faith Estimates Guidance
Practitioner Good Faith Estimates Decision Tree
HEA 1004 (text of the enacted legislation).

Access ISMA’s guidance on good-faith cost estimates. (Member login and password required.)