The No Surprises Act: A Cost Saving Opportunity for Employer Plan Sponsors
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The U.S. Departments of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and Treasury, along with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), released FAQs about the implementation of Title I of Division BB of the Consolidated...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
The newly enacted federal No Surprises Act (NSA), intended to protect consumers from surprise balance billing, continues to be the subject of considerable controversy. On February 23, 2022, a U.S. District Court in Texas...more
On May 16, 2022, the Colorado Supreme Court issued an opinion that serves as a cautionary tale for health care providers hoping to bill patients at chargemaster rates. The court’s decision in French v. Centura Health turned...more
On February 23, 2022, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas – Tyler Division issued a legal opinion in the case of Texas Medical Association and Adam Corley v. United States Department of Health...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
The federal No Surprises Act went into effect on January 1, 2022. The Act is aimed at reducing “surprise bills” to patients in the context of services provided at hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers, and includes...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 1 July 2021, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Health and Human Services (the Departments) issued an interim final rule (IFR) implementing certain provisions of the No Surprises...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
Late last week, the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury (collectively, the Departments), along with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), released the “Requirements Related to Surprise...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
As part of the COVID-19 relief legislation passed at the end of 2020, Congress adopted the “No Surprises Act” which prohibits out-of-network providers from balance billing patients for charges above the rates paid by their...more
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, signed by President Trump on December 27, 2020, included within its over 5,900 pages the controversial and long-debated No Surprises Act (the Act), addressing surprise medical bills....more
Governor Lamont issued two new executive orders designed to expand the health care workforce, immunize providers from COVID-19-related liability, and protect patients from out-of-network bills for COVID-19 treatment. On April...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
A group of New Jersey lawmakers recently introduced the Patient Protection Act (A5369, S3816), which would make it more difficult for doctors to transfer or refer patients to out-of-state providers or facilities....more