Billing and Collections
The Office for Civil Rights, a division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, today clarified that doctors and hospitals can charge more than $6.50 to provide patients an electronic copy of their records if they can show that the actual costs were higher.
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell on Monday formally challenged the healthcare industry to finally fix issues with confusing medical bills, and the U.S. government is putting a cash prize behind the effort.
Patients in some states are paying more than double what those in other states pay for healthcare services, a recent study by the Health Care Cost Institute has found. In fact, even within single states, prices can vary widely.
Revenue cycle management has gone from being a "back office" function to an "end-to-end" system that begins at patient intake or even before, claims specialists say. Advanced technologies, in tandem with improved workflows and better data have resulted in RCM systems that encompass the entire healthcare enterprise.
New research released by The Maine Heritage Policy Center has found significant variations in costs for certain procedures among Maine hospitals sometimes representing thousands of dollars, or in a handful of cases, five times the amount.
If you have cancer, chances are your outpatient chemotherapy treatment costs are higher if your oncologist works for a healthcare system than if he/she has her own practice, a recent study found.
Healthcare payment solution company SwervePay has acquired StatPayMD, a cost transparency group, in order to provide information and price transparency tools to consumers, the companies announced.
Despite recent attention to rising pharmaceutical prices, a new study claims the total costs of treating patients with cancer in the United States have risen no faster than overall costs for Medicare and commercial insurance in the past decade.
Authors liken drug loans to mortgages, noting that both can enable consumers to buy big-ticket items requiring a hefty up-front payment that they could not otherwise afford.
CareCredit-backed survey found 44 percent of those asked were not aware of financing options.