WASHINGTON, DC – Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) went on MSNBC with Katy Tur to explain how the bipartisan bill, No Surprises Act, will help protect patients from surprise medical billing.

Walden and Pallone speaking to Katy Tur on MSNBC

WATCH ? Walden on protecting Americans from surprise medical bills

You know it's what some of these groups do. It also tells me there's an enormous revenue stream behind it and it’s the consumer that's getting stuck. Your situation is just like (what) we heard from Sonji Wilkes, who testified before the committee. Her son, when born, had a medical issue. They rushed him into the neonatal intensive care unit 50 feet down from where she delivered the son and then got a bill for fifty grand. Because while the hospital was in network – guess what – they contracted out their neonatal intensive care unit. She had no idea that had happened nor should she have to. And so these guys are making a lot of money off the backs of patients who are playing by the rules to the best of their ability and we’re going to put a stop to it.

WATCH ? Walden on surprise billing practices and their bipartisan investigation

Katy we have evidence and we’re sending them a letter – Frank and I both are. We have evidence where they buy the practice, take the physicians out of network and raise the rates by 96%. Guess who is paying that? It’s people like you and me and our constituents. Then they decide whether they get back into network so this is an enormous scam, an enormous money drain on consumers. We want to be fair about the result. We want to hold harmless the consumer. We’re open to having policy discussions about the best way to do that. We have a good compromise bill that’s passed out of our committee unanimously but you know if they think they are going to intimidate us – by 27 million by the way – in advertising attack ads that scare people falsely, they’re making a big mistake.