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
Private Equity’s New Bait-and-Switch on Surprise Billing
As the Biden Administration moves forward with implementation of the No Surprises Act, out-of-network providers and private equity firms are pushing to create new loopholes that would raise costs for consumers and families. Groups representing emergency room...
Georgetown / Commonwealth Fund: Are Surprise Billing Payments Likely to Lead to Inflation in Health Spending?
By Jack Hoadley & Kevin Lucia “The federal No Surprises Act protects consumers from 'surprise' bills from out-of-network providers and also establishes a method to determine how much insurers will pay those providers. Establishing payment is critical to ensuring...
Coalition Statement on the ‘No Surprises Act’
Washington, D.C. - The Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing issued the following statement on the final surprise billing provisions included as part of the No Surprises Act: “Despite out-of-network providers and private equity firms trying once again to...