Providers Target Insurers in New Surprise Billing Legal Scuffles

Health-care providers are increasingly taking insurers to court to claim they are not making timely arbitration award payments under the No Surprises Act, adding a new obstacle to the already bumpy rollout of the billing dispute resolution system.

Those lawsuits are likely to only grow in popularity as more claims move through the system, and more are potentially batched together, according to attorneys and advocates who work with both providers and insurers.

“I think you’re going to see more and more lawsuits kind of pursuing relief from these physicians,” Kelly Kenney, CEO of the Physicians Advocacy Institute said. Many are ...