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
Guest Blog: Surprise Medical Billing Protections You Can Use Now
With the No Surprises Act protections fully in effect, consumers and employees will benefit from a range of new safeguards against these unexpected charges and costs. Patricia Kelmar, Director at Health Care Campaigns at U.S. PIRG highlighted a number of these...
Private Equity Is At It Again: New CBO Report Shows Rapid Increases in Hospital and Physician Prices for Consumers and Employers
New evidence from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) shows that the prevalence of surprise medical billing by private equity-backed doctors and hospitals is a prime example of providers exploiting their market power to demand higher prices from health insurance...
Coalition Statement on AMA and AHA’s Legal Challenge to the No Surprises Act
Following the legal challenge filed by the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Hospital Association (AHA) today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on the rulemaking process for the No Surprises Act, the Coalition Against Surprise...