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[Blog]
Farr’s Law: A Retrospective Analysis
(Trilliant Health, January 6, 2021)
Over the holidays, an executive with one of the nation’s largest health systems asked [our CEO] about our Farr’s Law posts, wondering whether things had turned out as we anticipated. His question was based in part on the media’s incessant coverage of the number of “positive” cases which has increased in step function with increases in testing, as opposed to the percentage of positive cases, which has ranged between 6-12% per day for months even as daily testing has increased by approximately 2.5X over the same period.
So, how did we do?
[Article] No Surprises Act—What is in it? The Outlaw of Out-Of-Network Emergency Bills
(Leavitt Group, January 5, 2021)
"A surprise addition to the Emergency COVID Relief Act of 2020, the No Surprises Act (“Act”) was added to the COVID relief bill at the 11th hour. This Act brings home, however short it falls, the intent of ending surprise medical billing, as well as adding transparency provisions. Further rulemaking is still a necessary part of the process as this Act is in the very early stages of the legislative process. The true effect of the Act on OON claims, and the specific administrative requirements for the Act, is yet to be known."
