Jul 16, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post
In a new letter to the Secretaries of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Labor, and the Department of the Treasury, the Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing (CASMB) urged prompt action on the “systemic cost challenges” stemming from...
Jul 15, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post, Private Equity
Bill would drive more IDR waste, fraud, and abuse harming consumers and employers The No Surprises Act is already protecting millions of Americans from surprise medical bills. While the core patient protections of the law are not at issue, a handful of private...
Jul 14, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post
At a time when the harm of Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) abuse and misuse to consumers and employers is abundantly clear, the No Surprises Act Enforcement Act (H.R. 4710/S. 2420) ignores every problem with arbitration that policymakers should address. Congress...
Jul 7, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post
As out-of-network providers’ abuse of the No Surprises Act’s independent dispute resolution (IDR) process grows more extreme, costly, and widespread, the urgency for policymakers to act grows with it. The latest editorial from...
Jun 29, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post
The surgeon who operated on a cancerous prostate gland earned $1,843. The assistant who handed him the instruments earned $50,456. Welcome to arbitration under the No Surprises Act. New York Times reporters Margot Sanger-Katz and Sarah Kliff did another deep dive into...
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