Billing & Collections
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AHA strongly urged the departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury and Office of Personnel Management to restore the independence of the independent dispute resolution process in the No Surprises Act Part 2 regulations.
In the final episode of this Members in Action podcast series, Julia Resnick, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the AHA, is speaking with Scott Hawig, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administration Officer at Froedtert and Paul Spencer, Vice-President of Managed Care and Revenue Cycle Services鈥
Learn how Wisconsin-based Froedtert is consolidating bills from across the continuum of care to make the process more patient-friendly.
In episode two of this Members in Action Podcast series, Julia Resnick, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the AHA, is speaking with Stephanie Schneider, Vice President for MedStar Georgetown Medical Center, and Susan Whitecotton, Vice President of Patient Financial Services and CBO at MedStar鈥
In this first in a series of three Member in Action podcasts, AHA speaks with Rob McMurray, chief financial officer of Christiana Care in Delaware, about how the health system is tailoring its billing approach to better meet patients鈥 needs.
The Secretaries of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury seek nominations to a congressionally mandated committee that will advise their departments and Congress on ground ambulance patient billing, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced.
A United States Attorney鈥榮 Office is attempting to bootstrap the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services billing guidelines on overlapping surgeries into a False Claims Act case, the AHA and Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania argue in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in a鈥
The documentary feature film, INHOSPITABLE, will premiere at the DOC NYC film festival on Nov. 13. According to the film鈥檚 website, it purports to 鈥渆xpose American hospitals鈥 significant role in our broken healthcare system.鈥
A recent AHA survey of hospitals and health systems found that 89% of respondents experienced an increase in payment denials over the past three years, and 51% reported experiencing a 鈥渟ignificant鈥 increase in denials.
The Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury and the Office of Personnel Management (鈥渢he departments鈥) Sept. 10 released proposed rules implementing certain provisions of the No Surprises Act related to enforcement, air ambulance transparency, and agent and broker鈥