Accretive Health, under fire for its allegedly aggressive hospital bill collection practices, is postponing the release of its financial results while it evaluates a change in how it recognizes revenue from its revenue-cycle management agreements. FULL STORY »
By Andrew L. Wang, Crain's Chicago Business | January 18, 2013
Accretive Health, whose alleged strong-arm practices were the target of an investigation by the Minnesota attorney general, is moving to exit the business of collecting severely past-due bills from individual patients. FULL STORY »
By Melanie Evans | October 13, 2012
| Print Magazine
Hospitals are increasingly contacting patients with scheduled procedures about their medical bills—and when the patients will be able to pay them—before or during a hospital visit. FULL STORY »
By Paul Barr | September 29, 2012
| Print Magazine
No one seems satisfied that proposed healthcare reform-driven regulations have much improved the thorny issue of how to ensure that not-for-profit hospitals properly handle the financial side of treating the uninsured. FULL STORY »
Hospitals increasingly ask patients to pay a medical bill when they arrive or before they leave. Here's a look at how one Minnesota hospital went too far to collect bills and violated Medicare rules and a law that safeguards access to emergency medical care, regardless of ability to pay. FULL STORY »
How much does a swing cost? For Accretive Health, the price it paid was $9.2 million.Accretive Health may have swiftly settled a lawsuit with Minnesota's attorney general, but it cost the company, a new securities filing shows. FULL STORY »
The uproar in Minnesota and Congress caused by an inquiry into Accretive Health's business practices apparently did not totally unnerve the company's first and largest customer. FULL STORY »
By Melanie Evans | August 04, 2012
| Print Magazine
Accretive Health settled the lawsuit that cost the billing and collection company clients and market capitalization, but the settlement has not ended the questions that the allegations raised about how hospitals and their contractors get patients to pay their bills. FULL STORY »
Accretive Health and Minnesota's attorney general agreed to settle a Minnesota lawsuit alleging violation of privacy, debt collection and consumer protection laws. FULL STORY »
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