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
ICYMI: Washington Examiner Editorial Board: “Congress must fix its No Surprises mistake”
As out-of-network providers' abuse of the No Surprises Act's independent dispute resolution (IDR) process grows more extreme, costly, and widespread, the urgency for policymakers to act grows with it. The latest editorial from the Washington Examiner says it all: “A...
Recap: New Surprises, New Challenges: Confronting Fraud & Abuse of the No Surprises Act
The continued abuse and misuse of the Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) process — and its growing associated costs — has become an untenable expense for millions of Americans and employers. Following the release of the recent IDR operations rule, members and...
ICYMI: New York Times: “$22,000 Per Hour: Assistants Use a Legislative Loophole to Outearn Surgeons”
The surgeon who operated on a cancerous prostate gland earned $1,843. The assistant who handed him the instruments earned $50,456. Welcome to arbitration under the No Surprises Act. New York Times reporters Margot Sanger-Katz and Sarah Kliff did another deep dive into...