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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A +$2,000 Bill for a Runny Nose? Nutex Health’s Charges Show What Went Wrong With IDR
It’s no surprise that private equity-backed providers—including Nutex Health—have co-opted the No Surprises Act’s (NSA) IDR process into their go-to profit center. It’s the reason why private equity-backed championed arbitration as their “solution” to the surprise...
By the Numbers: How Private Equity and IDR Middlemen Abuse the No Surprises Act and Cost Americans Billions
Congress and the President enacted the No Surprises Act to protect patients from outrageous medical bills and create a balanced, predictable system for resolving payment disputes between health plans and providers, while lowering costs. Instead, some private...
Private Equity Plays Both Sides of the No Surprises Act — and Patients Are Paying the Price
When Congress passed the No Surprises Act, the goal was clear: protect patients from unexpected out-of-network medical bills and lower costs for employees and employers. But a new analysis from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) finds that private equity is...