Jan 30, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post, Private Equity
The evidence of private equity-backed providers and arbitration middlemen’s routine abuse and misuse of the No Surprises Act’s Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) process, also known as arbitration, has been overwhelming. Recent lawsuits reveal repeated and...
Jan 28, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post, Private Equity
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) just released new data from the first half of 2025 on the No Surprises Act’s Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) process, and the numbers are staggering. Nearly 1.2 million disputes were filed in just six months,...
Jan 21, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post, Private Equity
It’s no surprise that private equity-backed providers—including Nutex Health—have co-opted the No Surprises Act’s (NSA) IDR process into their go-to profit center. It’s the reason why private equity-backed championed arbitration as their “solution” to the surprise...
Jan 13, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post, Private Equity
Congress and the President enacted the No Surprises Act to protect patients from outrageous medical bills and create a balanced, predictable system for resolving payment disputes between health plans and providers, while lowering costs. Instead, some private...
Nov 6, 2025 | Arbitration
The No Surprises Act was meant to protect patients from unexpected out-of-network medical bills. Instead, a new industry of profit-driven intermediaries is exploiting loopholes in the law—inflating the volume of disputes submitted for arbitration and demanding...
Sep 30, 2025 | Arbitration, Blog Post, Private Equity
The rise of the “IDR middlemen” is one of the clearest examples of how the arbitration process under the No Surprises Act is wrapping the health care system in red tape and increasing costs for patients and employers. A recent BusinessMole article highlights how...
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