The No Surprises Act fails at arbitrating fair healthcare prices

About this episode

This episode discusses the implications of the No Surprises Act and the need for real healthcare prices to avoid surprises in billing.

While patients no longer get surprise bills for seeing out-of-network providers, the No Surprises Act (NSA) has replaced them with new surprises for all stakeholders in healthcare. In this episode, we discuss how real prices, not more enforcement, is the only truly fair and practical solution to surprise bills and claims. Without real healthcare prices, expect surprises! To support our show, and the Center for Modern Health, you can make a tax deductible donation here .

Topics covered

• healthcare pricing
• No Surprises Act
• surprise bills
• health policy
• stakeholders

Keywords

• healthcare
• surprise bills
• No Surprises Act
• health policy
• pricing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: No Surprises Act

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