MedCity News September 15, 2021
Enforcement of the No Surprises Act is still a work in progress, but CMS is ready to give out As for effort. Whether patients will agree with that grade still remains to be seen.
Late last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services left enforcement of a federal law prohibiting emergency balance billing largely in the hands of states, thus leaving lingering questions around dispute resolution and price comparison tools unanswered.
In a highly-anticipated joint notice of proposed rulemaking, HHS, Labor, Treasury, and the Office of Personnel Management addressed the division of power between federal and state governments in overseeing the “No Surprises Act” (NSA), along with penalties for violations of the law.
The departments said HHS would...