rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/petition/no-surprises-people-against-unfair-medical-bills?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-petition-area-no-surprises-people-against-unfair-medical-bills' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Families USA https://actionnetwork.org/groups/no-surprises https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/share_options/facebook_images/000/194/785/original/12043608_web1_GettyImages-595118274.jpg Demand Congress end surprise medical billing and hold down health care costs. Nichole Briggs woke up in the middle of the night with stomach pain and went to the local hospital for an emergency appendectomy. She double-checked that the hospital was covered by her insurance, yet she still received a bill for nearly $5,000 because her surgeon was outside her network. She refused to pay the unfair bill. A credit agency then took her to court and put a lien on her home, all for a bill she shouldn’t owe in the first place. This should not be the status quo, but one in five emergency department visits result in a surprise medical bill. These bills occur when a person is charged for care they receive from a health care provider or facility that is outside of their health plan’s network, even though they didn’t choose to go out of network to begin with. No Surprises: People Against Unfair Medical Bills is demanding that Congress enact legislation to ban these surprise medical bills immediately. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-surprises-people-against-unfair-medical-bills-2?source=direct_link&&