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)...
Jul 28, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post
STAT’s Tara Bannow recently published an investigation into Nutex Health, a hospital operator whose financial turnaround from near bankruptcy has been fueled by abusing the No Surprises Act’s arbitration process. Her reporting builds on the growing body of...
Jul 24, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post
In The New York Times, the headline was “Trump Administration Says Surprise Billing Law Is Being ‘Gamed’ by Doctors.” In The Wall Street Journal, it was “Medical Billing Arbitration Paid Out $15 Billion to Providers in Surprise Bill...
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