Aug 14, 2025 | Arbitration, Blog Post
The No Surprises Act protects patients from unexpected out-of-network (OON) medical bills, but a growing industry of profit-seeking middlemen is exploiting loopholes in the system—driving up costs and threatening patient access to care, according to new research...
Jul 30, 2025 | Arbitration, Blog Post, Private Equity
While the No Surprises Act was intended to curb the worst of unfair billing practices from out-of-network providers and certain private equity firms, a recent analysis from the Niskanen Center highlights how misuse of the arbitration process is contributing to $1...
Jul 23, 2025 | Arbitration, Blog Post
While the No Surprises Act successfully protects patients from unexpected medical bills, Nutex Health’s approach reveals how the law’s arbitration process, also known as the Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR), can be exploited for financial gain. The implications...
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...
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