A law meant to end surprise medical billing accidentally created a multibillion-dollar industry that is making doctors richer ...

The No Surprises Act aims to prevent surprise billing by implementing an independent dispute resolution process for payment disputes between payers and out-of-network providers. While providers win ...

The No Surprises Act’s Independent Dispute Resolution process remains operational despite the government shutdown. CMS said Oct. 2 that all standard dispute timelines continue to apply but warned that ...

They claim health plans push costs onto patients, delay payments, or fail to pay at all ...

The No Surprises Act, which was signed into law in 2020, and went into effect on January 1, 2022, aimed to take patients out of billing conflicts between providers and payers. By all accounts this ...

The Fifth Circuit and the Federal District Court of Connecticut have issued conflicting decisions on whether service providers may sue to enforce arbitration awards under the No Surprises Rules in the ...

A survey by AHIP and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association shows that the No Surprises Act, which was passed with the intent of preventing surprise medical bills, has lived up to that goal by ...

Although the price transparency elements of the No Surprises Act do shake up the payer-provider dynamic, the true controversy surrounding the act involves out-of-network rate mediation, Larry Levitt, ...

In another development in the ongoing litigation over the enforceability of Independent Dispute Resolution (“IDR”) awards issued under the No Surprises Act (“NSA”), two air ambulance providers, ...