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
CASMB Statement on TMA v. HHS Surprise Billing Litigation
Washington, D.C. – The Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing issued the following statement following a decision rendered in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Texas Medical Association v. the United States Department of Health and Human...
WSJ & STAT: Private-Equity Firms Continue to Exert Power in the Health Care System
The protections for American patients and families recently implemented through the No Surprises Act will be more important than ever going forward, particularly as private-equity firms and out-of-network providers try to undo essential patient safeguards to shield their own profits by fighting the protections in the courts.
Physicians, air ambulance companies, and others file 6 lawsuits to weaken surprise billing protections
A recent blog post in Health Affairs details the current state of play regarding six provider-driven lawsuits over the No Surprises Act. These lawsuits aim to weaken or even halt new protections that safeguard patients from unreasonable out-of-network charges. Just...