With the rise in high-deductible health plans, patients are shouldering a greater portion of the cost of their medical care. As payment responsibility falls increasingly to the patient, it’s vital for ...

As much as hospital executives would like to bill their patients quickly, healthcare’s billing processes are complicated and ...

A survey of privately and publicly insured individuals highlights the need to improve the healthcare financial journey. Many patients are at their wits' end when trying to correct a billing error—an ...

Only 21 percent of patients engaged with the business office after discharge are completely satisfied with the hospital billing process, according to Connance’s 2011 Consumer Impact Study. The survey ...

Competition among companies in the Information Age has become fierce. It’s not for the faint-hearted and, if yours is a company that has been in business more than 20 years, watch out: the “disruptors ...

In 2020, the federal government signed into law the Surprise Billing Act, officially known as the No Surprises Act, (the “Act”) in an effort to address surprise medical billing and establish certain ...

The Biden administration has proposed a new rule refining several aspects of the healthcare services billing process in response to criticisms levied from all sides of the industry. Unveiled Friday ...

Auditing your billing process is essential to making sure your staff is performing well and your finances are in order. Daria Semanyshyn of Advanced Medical Practice Management discusses three ...

A major hospital group is imploring the Biden administration to not tilt a dispute resolution process for handling surprise medical bills in favor of insurers. The Federation of American Hospitals ...

Effective January 1, 2022, the “No Surprises Act” signed into U.S. law as part of H.R. 133, “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021,” implicates (1) emergency services provided by non-participating ...