The No Surprises Act: A Cost Saving Opportunity for Employer Plan Sponsors
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Welcome to the strange and mysterious world of medical billing. If ever there was an industry in which the charges and the payments have no correlation, the medical industry is it. Medical billing can indeed be quite...more
In 2020, Congress passed the No Surprises Act (NSA) in an attempt to protect patients from surprise billing. Some sections of the NSA became effective January 1, 2022, while other sections are on hold until regulations are...more
Last month, we published an article summarizing new surprise billing laws that prohibit nonparticipating providers from balance billing patients when the patient’s insurance company pays less than the provider’s usual and...more
On December 9, the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Hospital Association (AHA) (the Associations) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the proposed regulations...more
Is your organization ready for the No Surprises Act (NSA)? The law goes into effect January 1, 2022, and contains a new federal ban on surprise billing as well as new disclosure requirements. The NSA applies to certain...more
On July 1, 2021, the Office of Personnel Management, Department of the Treasury, Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), and Department of Labor (collectively the “Departments”) issued the interim final rule...more
On July 1, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Labor, and Department of the Treasury (Departments) jointly issued interim final rules (IFR) implementing certain aspects of the No Surprises Act...more
The Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Labor jointly released a package of guidance relating to the surprise billing reforms included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (“CAA”). The guidance...more
On July 1, 2021, the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury (the Departments), along with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), released an interim final rule with comment period (IFC)...more
The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor and Treasury, along with the Office of Personnel Management, on July 1, 2021, issued a much-anticipated Interim Final Rule with Comment Period (IFC) –...more
The United States Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury and Labor released interim final rules (“Rules”) regarding the “No Surprises Act” (“Act”) yesterday. The Rules are effective beginning on January 1, 2022....more
No Surprise Act - On December 27, 2020, Congress enacted the No Surprise Act (the “Act”) as part of the $900 billion omnibus spending bill. Effective January 1, 2022, the Act provides long-anticipated statutory protections...more
So-called surprise medical bills were among the hottest topics in the news nationwide in 2019 and generate significant political activity. The term describes the situation in which a patient who has health insurance receives...more
“Surprise billing,” also known as “balance billing,” is one of few areas that garners bipartisan support. Surprise billing occurs when a patient inadvertently goes out of his or her insurer’s network, resulting in a “surprise...more
Surprise billing protections are part of both state and national policy agendas this year in an effort to provide health-care transparency and consumer transparency. New Mexico’s new law now protects consumers by specifically...more
The United States Senate is currently considering bipartisan legislation that would establish statutory limits on the financial exposure of certain patients to so-called “surprise” medical bills....more
On May 14, 2015, four New Jersey legislators introduced the Out-of-Network Consumer Protection, Transparency, Cost Containment and Accountability Act (the "Legislation"). If enacted, the Legislation would increase health care...more