Answers
Plain-language answers about federal IDR, the No Surprises Act arbitration process, grounded in the 3.39 million disputes CMS has published.
What is federal IDR?
The No Surprises Act's arbitration process defined: where it came from, how a dispute moves, why it is baseball-style, and what it is not.
Read the answerFederal IDR by the numbers
22,000 projected disputes a year, 3.39 million published: volume, the 85.8 percent win rate, 4.7x awards, 37 day decisions, and who files.
Read the answerIs federal IDR worth it?
The $15 fee, the refundable deposit, the 85.8 percent win rate, and the three situations where filing is the wrong call.
Read the answerFor questions beyond this site, such as which claims are eligible or how the arbitration itself unfolds, see the Lido IDR answers library. The full dispute record is explorable at idrexplorer.com.
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