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
Flashback: NYT Profiles “The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills”
The growing presence of private equity-backed provider and specialty medical groups is becoming an all too common influence in the health system – and one of the leading drivers behind egregious surprise medical bills that bankrupt families across the country. EmCare,...
CBO Score Shows Surprise Billing Benchmark Will Reduce Costs for Everyone
Following today's analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on cost-savings for patients as part of the benchmark provision in the Lower Health Care Costs Act, the Coalition Against Surprise Medical Billing issued the following statement: “Today’s CBO...
Consensus in Washington? How a Payment Benchmark is Bringing Everyone Together
There’s a right way and a wrong way to address surprise medical billing. The right way starts with clear safeguards to protect patients, consumers, employers and taxpayers from exorbitant, price-gouging from out-of-network providers. Organizations representing...