Becker's Healthcare September 26, 2023
Federal departments are seeking to raise the administrative fee to enter the No Surprises Act arbitration process from $50 to $150 in 2024.
The $150 fee is intended to cover the federal government’s costs based on projections that 225,000 disputes will go through the independent dispute resolution process per year, according to the Sept. 21 proposal from HHS, the Labor Department and the Treasury Department.
Though the proposal would be a 200 percent increase over the current fee, it is lower than the $350 fee departments initially had in place for 2023. The $350 fee — a 600 percent increase over the previous year — was successfully challenged in a lawsuit by the Texas Medical Association.
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