Healthcare

The federal government is accused in a published report of being “one of the most unforgiving debt collectors around,” as it seeks to collect unpaid medical debts from individuals who were treated at a military hospital in the United States. Civilians owe nearly $200 million to military hospitals across the …

A revenue cycle management company has announced that it accidentally mailed invoices that displayed the Social Security numbers of the recipients of the invoices in the window portion of the envelope, instead of displaying the city, state, and ZIP code where the invoice was being mailed. RCM Enterprise Services, Inc. …

A published report blasts the credit and collection industry, especially those collecting medical debts, for suing individuals with unpaid debts that should have been covered by workers’ compensation insurance and infers that those doing the suing are knowingly taking the risk, expecting that the individual is not going to do …

Higher health insurance deductibles are causing the amount of and debt at hospitals to pile up, but the problem is becoming especially difficult for rural hospitals, according to a published report. The issue for rural hospitals is two fold: one, people living in rural areas tend to have insurance policies …

Switching to a single-payer healthcare system could cut as much as $600 billion in administrative costs from healthcare spending in the United States, according to a study that was published earlier this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Much of that $600 million would come from less overhead at …

After spiking during 2000 – 2012, the gap between what hospitals charge private insurance companies and what they charge the federal government for Medicaid or Medicare coverage is narrowing, according to a published report. In 2000, for example, private insurance payment rates for an emergency room visit was 140% of …

A District Court judge in Alabama has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for allegedly wrongfully billing and collecting payments from insured patients and collecting payments that exceeded what the defendants were entitled to recover from insurance companies. A copy of the ruling in the case …

A collection agency has been forced to confirm that the letters and calls it has been making to former patients of a Pennsylvania hospital that has been partially closed because of financial troubles are legitimate attempts to collect on the unpaid debts. The collection agency — Regional Adjustment Bureau — …

A new law has gone into effect in Washington that will prevent healthcare organizations from sending surprise medical bills to individuals who receive emergency care or other services at hospitals or facilities where they have insurance coverage. Surprise billing occurs when a patient receives treatment from a physician who is …

After months of publishing reports about the collection practices at different hospital groups across the country and assailing those organizations for filing lawsuits in attempts to collect on unpaid debts, a published report has turned its sights higher up the food chain and is wondering why the American Hospital Association …