Are surprise medical bills gone starting Jan 2022?

It looks like surprise medical bills like an out of network anesthesiologist at an in-network facility will be gone starting next month.

In fact, it looks like providers will have to give good faith estimates starting next month.

This sounds too good to be true! Is this real or are there exceptions and fine print to this law?

There must have been major lobbying to water this down.

I have a procedure that I will wait till after new year if this is real.

I doubt it will make any meaningful differences. Medical building is such a shit show. I routinely receiver bills for a service that happened 9months before, for a procedure i don't even remember. I have no question in my mind that will change one tiny bit.

My way to combat some of that is to wait as long as they did to bill me to pay them or just tell them their window to bill me closed after 6 months. Both tactics work and the debt is no longer pursued