"[The AMA and AHA] make a good point that...

 ...Congress enumerated which factors the arbitrators should consider and which factors an arbitrator should not consider — but didn’t go as far as to favor any such factor and give it more weight. That gave an opening to the providers."

—Raja Sékaran, a partner at Nossaman LLP who served as senior council in the HHS Office of Inspector General during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, talked with AIS’s Health Plan Weekly about the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association's new lawsuit against the Biden admin’s No Surprises Act.

 

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