Mealey's (August 14, 2023, 11:50 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Various government agencies’ explanations for rules dictating what constitutes the qualifying payment amount (QPA) for independent air ambulance services under the No Suprises Act (NSA) and how they treated those providers show that the decisions were not arbitrary and demonstrate the very type of analysis required by the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), a federal judge in the District of Columbia said in granting defendants’ motion for summary judgment....