Billing and Collections news and information

Jonathon Layden was once confident that if he were ever injured, he could count on his health insurance to help pay his medical bills. But after he was patched up following an auto accident in 2011, Research Medical Center didn't submit his bill to his Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance.
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Women's health group Planned Parenthood has agreed to pay the state of Texas $1.4 million to settle allegations of fraud in billing to a health program for the poor, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said on Wednesday.
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Kareo, provider of cloud-based medical office software and services for small practices, has acquired medical billing and practice-management company ECCO Health.
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Modern Healthcare's July 8 article “Across the board,” on page 30, originally incorrectly stated that not-for-profit hospitals that fail to comply with new billing, collection and financial aid...
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Most hospitals will face new rules for how they collect money from patients under health reform, prompting some boards to reconsider how their facilities identify and help those who can't pay.
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A new report says the federal government in 2010 identified more than half a billion dollars in illegitimate Medicare claims that it never collected.
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Modern Healthcare legal issues reporter Joe Carlson interviews Greg Demske, chief counsel to HHS' inspector general, in the magazine's Chicago offices. Demske says that physicians are often unaware of the influence that even minor payments from industry have on their judgment, and he says his...
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Healthcare billing and collection software company PaySpan, Atlanta, has acquired mPay Gateway, a Minneapolis-based provider of software used to collect money owed from patients during a hospital or clinic visit.
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Healthcare Financial Management Association President and CEO Joe Fifer looks back at the organization's 2013 National Institute in Orlando, Fla.
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CareCloud, a Boston-based provider of cloud-based practice management, electronic health record and medical billing software and services, has named Tom Cady VP of professional services.
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