Open enrollment highlights challenges in health care costs and provider/payer relations

That Modern Healthcare titled its article “Providers, employers wage war over costs” instead of characterizing the dispute as one between providers and health care insurance payers is perhaps misleading.  As providers struggle post-pandemic, they continue to be pointed to wrongly or implicated as the problem.  

The challenges during open enrollment further emphasize the need to amend and correct the issues present in the No Surprises Act to allow for providers to have a meaningful remediation for underpayment in the face of mounting out-of-network arrangements.