The non-profit Patient Rights Advocate reviewed 43 Iowa hospitals and found 26 hospitals, or 60% percent, are non-compliant with the Hospital Price Transparency Rule.
Nearly two weeks after the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare that has disrupted claims processing across the U.S., doctors are beginning to face a no win choice - stop treating patients or stop paying staff.
Community Health Systems is facing a new federal probe into its hospital billing practices more than four years after the hospital chain settled separate allegations of fraudulent overbilling.
A new report from the Biden Administration showed that in over 80% of payment disputes, the arbiter settled on an amount that was more than the median in-network rate for that service. Not only that, the sheer volume of disputes means the three federal agencies that run the program are devoting much more time to it than expected.
Nebraska lawmakers approved a measure intended to help critical-care access hospitals meet financial challenges posed by low Medicaid reimbursements. Among other provisions in LB1087, the state’s hospitals would pay an assessment of up to six percent of their net income into a fund that would leverage federal matching funds to enhance rates paid to hospitals under the medical assistance program.