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The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor and the Treasury (the Departments) have issued a highly anticipated third interim final rule (IFR) implementing the No Surprises Act...
At the end of September, the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury (collectively, the Departments)...
Thursday, February 11, 2021 On 28 December 2020, the federal No Surprises Act (Act) 1 was enacted. The Act seeks to protect patients from so-called “surprise medical bills” in certain emergency and nonemergency settings for out-of-network patients. This alert focuses on the Act’s arbitration provisions but first provides necessary background to those provisions. Key takeaways include: The Act, and its arbitration provisions, include both emergent and nonemergent care in certain out-of-network contexts. See Parts I and II. The Act requires payors to treat out-of-network patien...