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.
To view the Coalition’s principles, click here.
Latest News
Latest CASMB Ad Campaign Calls on Congress & White House to Tackle IDR Affordability Crisis Facing Employers, Consumers
Washington, D.C. — As Congress and the White House look to address the healthcare affordability crisis facing employers and consumers, the Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing (CASMB) today launched its latest ad, “Real Relief,” urging lawmakers and the Trump...
ICYMI: Employers Warn IDR Abuse Is A Major Affordability Problem
Extreme and inflationary independent dispute resolution (IDR) awards are forcing employers to pay more for healthcare, according to a new analysis from The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC). This latest report underscores how far the No Surprises Act’s IDR process has...
$+22 Billion in Added Costs, and Growing Consensus That Congress Must Act on IDR
Certain out-of-network providers’ abuse and misuse of arbitration have become a $22 billion affordability crisis, according to recent government data analyzed by Georgetown researchers. Excessive independent dispute resolution (IDR) costs have translated directly into...