Oct 29, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post
House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Representative Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) recently introduced the Lower Premiums, Faster Payments Act (H.R. 10788), which would stop costly abuse and misuse of arbitration by replacing the No Surprises Act’s...
Oct 28, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post
Congress passed the No Surprises Act to end surprise medical bills, and it largely has for patients. But employers and working families are now facing a new surprise: higher premiums and shrinking provider networks, driven by certain providers’ and arbitration firms’...
Oct 14, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post
Patients are largely protected from surprise medical bills, but they are paying the price for certain private equity-backed providers and out-of-network specialists who abuse the No Surprises Act. A new CBS News investigation examines how the law’s arbitration process...
Oct 6, 2026 | Arbitration, Blog Post
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that the No Surprises Act’s arbitration process is incentivizing providers to go out-of-network and driving higher premiums. The economists estimate that the undue costs of the independent dispute...
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...
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