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
A $440,000 Breast Reduction? How One Provider’s Playbook Exposes the IDR System’s Flaws
A new lawsuit filed by EmblemHealth lays out one of the most shocking accounts of how an out-of-network provider has allegedly contorted the No Surprises Act's Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) into a personal ATM. The numbers are staggering. The complaint details...
ICYMI: New Health Affairs Data Shows IDR Costs and Volume Surging in First Half of 2025
A new analysis published in Health Affairs offers an early look at Q1-Q2 2025 data from the No Surprises Act’s federal Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) process, finding that “the volume of cases submitted into the IDR process continues to exceed all expectations.”...
ICYMI: STAT News: “How a Texas couple is getting rich off out-of-network medical bills”
HaloMD has emerged as one of the leading companies abusing and misusing the No Surprises Act, and a new investigation from STAT News details how the company and its founders have developed a playbook for securing lucrative payouts from the arbitration process, also...