Aug 27, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post
The city of San Antonio is $40 million over its employee healthcare budget this year following costly misuse and abuse of the independent dispute resolution (IDR) process by a handful of out-of-network providers. New reporting from the San Antonio Express-News details...
Aug 26, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post
Untenable and unsustainable IDR costs are driving up premiums for employers and employees, and new data from researchers at Georgetown University uncovers how out-of-network providers’ abuse and misuse of arbitration has become a $22 billion affordability crisis....
Aug 25, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post
Abuse of the No Surprises Act’s independent dispute resolution (IDR) process by certain private equity-backed providers and IDR firms continues to drive up premium costs for employers, unions, and workers. POLITICO recently reported that one national health insurer is...
Aug 6, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post
When Congress wrote the No Surprises Act, it borrowed its arbitration model from Major League Baseball. A new analysis from the New York Times lays out how that system has failed in healthcare. More than 2.5 million disputes went to arbitration last year, compared...
Aug 5, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post
IDR abuse is accelerating. That’s the takeaway from a new analysis by the Niskanen Center, which dug into CMS’s latest data on the No Surprises Act’s arbitration process, covering the second half of 2025. Disputes are up nearly 75% year-over-year,...
Jul 29, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post
Last month, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a rare warning: the intended cost savings for employers and employees under the No Surprises Act are in jeopardy because the law’s dispute backstop, the Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR)...
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