Ban on Balance Billing Headed to Final Vote on Senate Floor

By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefThe New Jersey Senate Labor Committee unanimously approved legislation on Thursday that would ban medical providers from trying to collect the unpaid balances of disputed medical bills from injured workers.Senate 2022, which places a ban on a practice known as "balance billing," is expected to win final approval by the New Jersey Senate next month and head to the desk of Gov. Chris Christie.The labor panel approved S 2022, filed by Senate Labor Committee Chairman Fred Madden Jr., D-Turnersville, by voice vote on Thursday. The bill provides that all medi...