The Substantial Costs Of The No Surprises Act Arbitration Process
The No Surprises Act’s arbitration process has generated an estimated $5 billion in total costs fr...
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No Surprises Act Arbitrators Vary Significantly In Their Decision Making Patterns
IDR entities have come to play an instrumental role in OON payments, but entities’ determinations ...
No Surprises Act: Exploring the Impact on Employees, Employers and Costs
On March 7, CHIR hosted the second event in a series of policy briefings on the future of employer-s...
Report Shows Dispute Resolution Process in No Surprises Act Favors Providers
Last month, the Biden administration reported on independent dispute resolution (IDR) cases resolved...
Implementing the No Surprises Act: What We Know from Early Complaint Data
The No Surprises Act (NSA) provides comprehensive protections from many of the most prevalent forms ...
Surprise Billing: Volume Of Cases Using Independent Dispute Resolution Continues Higher Than Anticipated
The No Surprises Act is largely working as intended to protect patients from unexpected medical bill...
Providers Challenge Payments In ‘No Surprises’ Act Dispute Resolution Process
Under the No Surprises Act, consumers are held harmless beyond in-network cost sharing when they rec...
January Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
Welcome to another year of health policy research. In the first month of 2023, CHIR reviewed studies...
As Ground Ambulance Committee Begins Its Work, New Report on Balance Billing by Ground Ambulance Providers Highlights a Gap in the No Surprises Act
On December 9, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced the membership of the Adviso...
New CHIR Report Examines Federal-State Partnership in No Surprises Act Implementation
The No Surprises Act (NSA) aims to protect consumers facing surprise medical bills after receiving c...
September Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
It's officially fall, and along with the new season came an autumnal bounty of new health policy res...
The No Surprises Act Final Rule: Implications for State Regulators
The Biden administration has published its final rules governing the independent dispute resolution ...
CHIR Interactive Map Highlights New Details on No Surprises Act Enforcement
The No Surprises Act (NSA) went into effect this year, providing new protections against surprise m...
Navigator Guide FAQs of the Week: Answers to Post-Enrollment Questions
As of January 15th, the open enrollment period has ended in most states. A record number of consumer...
November Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
For November’s monthly roundup of new health policy research, CHIR’s Emma Walsh-Alker reviewed s...
Filling a Gap in the No Surprises Act: What are States Doing to Protect Consumers from Out-of-Network Ground Ambulance Bills?
In January, the No Surprises Act will provide landmark protections against surprise billing, but gro...
The No Surprises Act Interim Final Rule on Dispute Resolution, Uninsured Protections, and External Review: Implications for States
Last month, the Biden administration published a third rule implementing the No Surprises Act, the c...
The No Surprises Act Proposed Rule on Air Ambulances and Enforcement: Implications for States
This month the Biden administration released a second rule implementing the No Surprises Act, the ne...
Federal Committee Recommends Airline Deregulation Act Changes to Avoid Conflicts with No Surprises Act
Air ambulances are one of the largest sources of surprise medical bills. While the No Surprises Act ...
Restraining Balance Billing by Air Ambulance Providers: CHIR Keeps Up with Federal Advisory Committee and Regulatory Actions
Air ambulances are the source of some of the largest unexpected medical bills faced by consumers. Be...
Putting Surprise Billing Protections into Practice: Biden Administration Releases First Set of Regulations
The Biden administration has issued the first in a series of rules to implement the No Surprises Act...
June Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
For June's monthly roundup of health policy research, Nia Gooding reviewed studies on ground ambulan...
Banning Surprise Bills: Biden Administration Issues First Rule On The No Surprises Act
When Congress enacted the "No Surprises Act" last year to ban unexpected out-of-network medical bill...
Are Surprise Billing Payments Likely to Lead to Inflation in Health Spending?
Under the No Surprises Act, enacted in December of 2020, federal regulators face a balancing act as ...
Hybrid Approach to Resolving Payment Disputes Breaks Legislative Stalemates Over Balance Billing, How Will the No Surprises Act Affect These New State Laws?
Seven states in 2020 were able to break a longstanding stalemate and enact protections against surpr...
March Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
The CHIR team is excited to transition into spring, as with the warmer weather has come some great n...
The No Surprises Act and Preemption of State Balance Billing Protections
The No Surprises Act of 2020 sets up a new national framework to protect patients from surprise out-...
New Georgetown CHIR Report: Taking the Disputes out of Dispute Resolution
The U.S. Congress enacted the No Surprises Act in 2020 to protect patients from surprise out-of-netw...
The No Surprises Act: Implications for States
In the waning days of 2020, Congress enacted the No Surprises Act, which provides, for the first tim...
Unpacking The No Surprises Act: An Opportunity To Protect Millions
Congress included the No Surprises Act in the omnibus spending bill that was passed and signed into ...