Federal Health Policy Update for August 8

The following is the latest health policy news from the federal government for August 3-8.  Some of the language used below is taken directly from government documents. No Surprises Act A federal appeals court has upheld a February lower court ruling that found that the current No Surprises Act’s arbitration process for addressing payment disagreements between payers and providers favored payers by giving too much weight to “qualifying payment amounts,” which are the median of what insurers contract to pay providers in a given geographic area.  Learn more from the appeals court’s decision in the case. Department of Health and [...]