Legislature Takes on Balance Billing

By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefNew Jersey lawmakers are poised to consider a ban on balance billing to prevent medical providers from suing injured workers in civil court to collect portions of bills that carriers and employers refuse to pay.On Friday, a New Jersey chiropractor and two other members of the New Jersey Assembly with ties to the state's unions filed Assembly 2652, which would prohibit medical providers from attempting to collect any portion of a bill generated as part of a workers' compensation claim from an injured worker.The bill also guaranteed that all medic...