{"id":19252,"date":"2021-12-10T07:25:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T12:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19252"},"modified":"2021-12-10T07:25:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T12:25:58","slug":"suit-by-doctors-hospitals-seeks-change-in-how-arbitrators-settle-surprise-billing-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19252","title":{"rendered":"Suit by Doctors, Hospitals Seeks Change in How Arbitrators Settle Surprise Billing Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of the largest lobbying groups representing physicians and hospitals filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging a Biden administration decision on how to implement the law shielding patients from most surprise medical bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ama-assn.org\/system\/files\/ama-v-hhs-as-filed-complaint.pdf\">lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0from the American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association does not seek to halt the law from going into effect in January.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ama-assn.org\/system\/files\/ama-v-hhs-as-filed-stay-motion-and-brief.pdf\">Instead, it seeks a change<\/a>\u00a0in a key provision in regulations issued in September.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/suit-by-doctors-hospitals-seeks-change-in-how-arbitrators-settle-surprise-billing-cases\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/suit-by-doctors-hospitals-seeks-change-in-how-arbitrators-settle-surprise-billing-cases\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"143\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 275px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News) Two of the largest lobbying groups representing physicians and hospitals filed a lawsuit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-legislative-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19253,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19252\/revisions\/19253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}