HIT Consultant November 29, 2022
The No Surprises Act (NSA) was meant to relieve the financial burden from consumers and help prevent unexpected, and sometimes massive, healthcare bills – a goal that providers, payors and the industry at large can get behind. But a recent survey from Morning Consult found that one in five patients will still receive a surprise bill. Couple this with the scope of changes and many surprises the NSA contains for payors, and providers – and it seems this bill will take some time to live up to its name.
On July 1, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) issued its “Interim Final Rule on Requirements Related to Surprise Billing; Part I,” aka the No Surprises Act implementing regulations....