The Solution
The No Surprises Act has already made a major difference—preventing more than one million surprise bills each month from health care facilities, providers, and air ambulances. But this progress is at risk. Ongoing lawsuits and loopholes have opened the door for some providers and middlemen to exploit the system, driving up costs and undermining the law’s intent. To preserve the full benefits of the No Surprises Act, policymakers must keep patients at the center—maintaining strong protections, ensuring a fair and transparent process, and closing gaps that allow bad actors to abuse the system. By doing so, we can lower health care costs and uphold the law’s promise of affordability and security for patients and families.
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Latest News
IDR Is a Gold Rush for Certain Private Equity-Backed Providers. Independent Physicians Are Getting Squeezed.
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) process,...
ICYMI: STAT: “How a hospital operator used the No Surprises Act to fuel a stunning financial turnaround”
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 evidence...
IDR Keeps Making Headlines – For All The Wrong Reasons
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 Disputes." In STAT, it was “This...