Overview

No Surprises Act & Independent Dispute Resolution

Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) was designed as a narrow arbitration process for rare surprise billing disputes.

Instead, it’s become one of the fastest-growing, least predictable cost pressures in employer-sponsored healthcare—a multibillion-dollar drain that self-funded employers absorb directly through inflated arbitration awards, mounting administrative fees, and rising stop-loss premiums.

Learn what’s driving the surge, and how pre-negotiated, value-based pricing can take your plan out of the process altogether

Read the Overview