AMA and MAG Support Georgia Insurance Commissioner’s Defense of Prompt-Pay Law
ATLANTA - March 25, 2013 - The American Medical Association (AMA) and the Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in federal court backing Georgia’s authority to regulate unfair business practices by companies hired to pay medical bills. The medical societies support an appeal by Georgia’s Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens seeking to overturn a court injunction barring full enforcement of the state’s Insurance Delivery Enhancement Act of 2011 .