IRVINE, Calif., April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, HaloMD celebrates a significant victory in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, after Magistrate Judge Karen E. Scott ...

It’s a major victory for controversial billing intermediary HaloMD, which cheered the court’s decision. Elevance said it ...

Insurers hoping for a reprieve from an out-of-network billing system largely favoring healthcare providers will likely be ...

The federal No Surprises Act went into effect in 2022 with the goal of preventing surprise billing by implementing an independent dispute resolution process for payment disputes between payers and out ...

A proposed rule pertaining to the controversial No Surprises Act Dispute Resolution process, would, if finalized, require payers to provide additional information at the time of initial payment or ...

The most recent status update shows the huge influx of disputes. A total of 334,828 billing disputes have been filed through the independent dispute resolution (IDR) process, nearly 14 times more than ...

A key group advising Congress on how to prevent surprise bills for consumers after taking emergency transport is skeptical of applying the dispute resolution process that’s the status quo for ...

Before the No Surprises Act, patients often got stuck in the middle of billing disputes. For instance, when they went to an in-network hospital but were treated by an out-of-network provider or when ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...