Jul 15, 2025 | Arbitration, Blog Post, Private Equity
A new Health Affairs article published by researchers at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms and released as a companion article to an earlier analysis, highlights alarming inconsistencies in how arbitrators are resolving payment disputes under...
Jun 30, 2025 | Arbitration, Blog Post, Private Equity
Certain health care providers—particularly large, private equity-backed groups—are increasingly dominating the federal Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) process established under the No Surprises Act, according to new data from the Centers for Medicare &...
Feb 11, 2025 | Arbitration, Blog Post
New data from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on implementation of the No Surprises Act (NSA) found that some providers are still attempting to balance bill patients and continue to submit ineligible, incomplete, or incorrect claims to the...
Jan 24, 2025 | Arbitration, Blog Post, Private Equity
Before the passage of the No Surprises Act, too many patients experienced the costly burden of surprise medical bills. President Trump signed this landmark law in December 2020, and since it took effect in January 2022, it is preventing approximately 1 million...
Nov 19, 2024 | Arbitration, Blog Post, Private Equity
Certain private equity-backed providers are flooding the federal arbitration process with thousands of frivolous and ineligible claims, according to a new analysis from Brookings Institution researchers published in Health Affairs. The latest assessment confirms that...
Nov 13, 2024 | Arbitration, Blog Post, Private Equity
While the No Surprises Act took a critical step in banning unfair, egregious surprise medical bills, certain private equity-backed providers continue to abuse and misuse the law’s arbitration process (also known as independent dispute resolution, or IDR) as a “back...
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