Billing & Collections
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…
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…
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’ 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‘s Office is attempting to bootstrap the Centers for Medicare…
The documentary feature film, INHOSPITABLE, will premiere at the DOC NYC film festival on Nov. 13. According to the film’s website, it purports to “expose American hospitals’ significant role in our broken healthcare system.”
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 “significant” increase in denials.
The Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury and the Office of Personnel Management (“the departments”) Sept. 10 released proposed rules implementing certain provisions of the No Surprises Act related to enforcement, air ambulance transparency, and agent and broker…
Hoping to prevent patients from delaying or not getting needed care, Pennsylvania-based Geisinger has introduced a customizable zero-interest artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled payment plan for out-of-pocket medical expenses.