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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ICYMI: Arbitration Roulette—When Outcomes Depend on the Arbitrator, Not the Facts
A new Health Affairs article published by researchers at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms and released as a companion article to an earlier analysis, highlights alarming inconsistencies in how arbitrators are resolving payment disputes under...
ICYMI: Private Equity-Backed Providers and Profit-Enhancing Middlemen Have Made Manipulating the IDR Process a Business Model
Certain health care providers—particularly large, private equity-backed groups—are increasingly dominating the federal Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) process established under the No Surprises Act, according to new data from the Centers for Medicare &...
CASMB Urges the Trump Administration to Fix Costly Arbitration Process That Threatens to Undermine No Surprises Act
WASHINGTON, DC – Unnecessary and wasteful costs from the federal arbitration process continue to add up for employers, unions and health plans as certain providers continue to overuse and likely misuse the system, according to a new letter to the Trump-Vance...