Healthcare

A lack of financial resources is not the only reason why individuals are not paying their medical bills, according to the results of a newly released survey. Only half of those who were late paying a medical bill said it was because they couldn’t pay for financial reasons, according to …

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights has fined two more healthcare providers for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for not providing individuals with access to their medical records, which could intersect with the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act for any agency …

Healthcare providers are overhauling their patient collection operations, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Healthcare Financial Management Association, with 88% of the respondents saying COVID-19 has impacted their collections approach in some way and 18% saying the coronavirus has impacted their approach in every way. Seventy …

Forgetting to pull the plug on the access credentials of an employee who had been terminated is going to cost the city of New Haven, Conn., $202,400, after it was fined by the Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights for allowing a data breach that compromised …

Barely half of the participants in a survey conducted by TransUnion Healthcare said they fully understood their financial responsibility for a recent medical bill, and that figure was significantly lower for younger generations. Only 37% of members of Generation Z (born after 1995) said they fully understood their medical bill, …

Nearly 50% of healthcare facilities across the country have seen their amount of bad debt and uncompensated care increase during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the results of a survey that were released last week. Nearly just as many facilities have seen an increase in the number of patients who …

Healthcare providers must start bracing for a “new normal” that represents a lower number of patients once the coronavirus pandemic is over, according to a recently released study. Patient volume levels may get close to what they were before the pandemic, but will likely not fully return, according to the …

The University of Virginia Health System is back in the headlines again, this time being accused of attaching liens to patients’ property as a means of collecting on unpaid debts. The healthcare provider has “thousands” of liens on properties and continues to obtain new ones on older court cases, according …

A battle is brewing in the Mile High City between the union representing healthcare workers at hospitals and facilities and one of the nation’s largest hospital chains, with the union accusing the provider of being too “aggressive” with its collection efforts on unpaid medical bills, among other claims. The union …

About 40% of Americans are having trouble managing their medical bills and have had at least one bill sent to collections, according to a survey conducted by U.S. News & World Report this month. The media outlet conducted the survey to see how individuals are managing medical bills during the …