Becker's Healthcare November 22, 2022
The House Ways and Means Committee is calling for “swift action” to fix the No Surprises Act final rule issued in August, which it said violates the law passed by Congress “in the same way as before.”
“Although the final rule makes some limited progress by no longer designating an unlawful ‘rebuttable presumption’ towards the QPA [qualifying payment amount] as the interim final rule did (which a federal district court properly invalidated), we find that the new instruction to IDR [independent dispute resolution] entities largely would have the same effect,” the committee said in a Nov. 18 letter to HHS and the Labor and Treasury departments.
The committee said that while the law passed by Congress explicitly requires independent...
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