End surprise medical billing.

Thomas H. Kean, Jr. · New Jersey · Republican

policy impact 0.68 specificity 0.78 extraction confidence 95%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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Occurrences

It is also critical that our system is transparent with the health care and prescription drug market and must end surprise billing.

Kean commits to eliminating surprise billing in health care.

Health | Congressman Thomas Kean Jr.
secondary · other · model gpt-5.4-mini

Evidence

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CMS says No Surprises Act rules began in January 2022 and ban surprise billing for emergency services, balance billing and out-of-network cost sharing for emergency and certain non-emergency services, and ancillary out-of-network charges at in-network facilities, while listing categories outside these protections.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Federal law already provides broad consumer protections against common surprise medical bills, but the CMS page also shows the protections are not universal. This supports partial delivery of the policy outcome, before Kean entered Congress in 2023 rather than by his same federal term.

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CMS - What are the new protections?
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Congress.gov lists H.R.4710 as introduced on July 23, 2025, referred to House Energy and Commerce, Education and Workforce, and Ways and Means, and still at the Introduced step. The official title would increase penalties for violations of balance-billing requirements.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): No concrete delivery signal was found in the August 15-17, 2026 lookback window. The main later federal enforcement bill located remains unresolved in committee and does not show enactment of additional surprise-billing enforcement during Kean's current federal term.

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Congress.gov - H.R.4710, No Surprises Act Enforcement Act, 119th Congress
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Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): partial. unknown

Federal surprise-billing protections were broadly enacted through the No Surprises Act and took effect in January 2022, before Kean entered Congress in January 2023, so the federal policy outcome was partly achieved but not attributable to his current federal service. The protections are not universal, and the later enforcement bill identified in the evidence remains only introduced in committee with no enactment signal or material Kean role. This supports partial credit for the national outcome rather than full delivery by Kean.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 91%