Earlier this year, the departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury and the Office of Personnel Management published federal Independent Dispute Resolution operations final rules to improve the functioning of the No Surprises Act’s IDR process, which is part of a broader effort to eliminate surprise medical bills. The new rules seek to streamline communication between health care payers, providers, and certified IDR entities by establishing new timelines and processes.
When the individual requirements in these final rules will take effect will vary depending on when the technical capacity to support them is ready within the not-yet-introduced new “IDR Gateway.”
Now, in a new guidance document, CMS is clarifying when it expects the various processes and requirements established in the June rule to go into effect. Learn more from CMS’s guidance on the implementation of its June 2026 IDR rule.