Pursuant to California's Health Care Quality and Affordability Act (the "HCQA"), the newly created Office of Health Care Affordability ("OHCA") recently proposed statewide health care cost targets and standards and goals for...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and other agencies together issued final regulations concerning the independent dispute resolution process for settling provider-payor disputes over reimbursement for...more
In a win for health care providers across the nation, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has vacated a key regulation regarding the process for resolving payment disputes between insurers and...more
The Development: Congress unanimously passed and before leaving office, President Trump signed into law, the Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act ("CHIRA"). CHIRA limits application of the McCarran-Ferguson Act, an...more
Health care providers have seen an increase in litigation and disputes with commercial payors.
On January 13, 2021, a federal district court in Dallas, Texas, entered judgment against two health care providers and their...more