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Christopher Pilkington's avatar

Yikes, the architecture of the independent dispute resolution process of the No Surprises Act seems like it was perfectly designed to create unintended negative consequences!

And in addition to the storytelling on ADR pumping, the Barrow article is a primer on the state of AKS workarounds. Ugh.

Jeff Levin-Scherz, MD MBA FACP's avatar

The initial IDR regs would may worked far better, but a lawsuit struck down the requirement that the arbitrators use the median in network payment as the main benchmark

Jeanne Wyand's avatar

Another example of government intervention that leads to corruption.