More business is coming to Berkeley County. Revenue cycle management company XIFIN, which works with diagnostic providers, will be establishing operations in the county. The San Diego, California-based company took to Twitter on Tuesday to share details on its expansion to the East Coast.
ExlService ([[EXLS]]) announces the launch of new Integrated Revenue Management Solutions from its EXL Health division. EXL Health has partnered with REVELOHEALTH.
Health care costs in the U.S. continue to grow year after year, leaving Americans with more and more debt. According to Credit Karma data provided to Yahoo Finance, roughly 21 million Americans holding $46 billion of medical debt as of April 2021 face collections — meaning that a third-party debt collector is trying to obtain the money owed.
U.S. hospitals have been required to make their prices public since 2019, but 18 months into the rule more than half weren't doing it, a new study finds. In 2018, the Trump administration issued a rule requiring hospitals to publish their "chargemasters" on their websites.
For years, patients have had a serious, very valid complaint about our health care system: It’s nearly impossible to know how much treatment actually costs. That’s why hospitals began posting their prices online in January, thanks to the Transparency in Coverage rule — a policy enacted by the Trump administration. Seema Verma, the then-administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, proclaimed that the rule would “usher in a new era that upends the status quo to empower patients and put them first.”
Taken together, the hospital and surgeon billed Gottlieb more than $700,000. The hospital billed $445,995 for the surgery, an amount reduced by Geico to $103,778. Bergen Pain Management billed an additional $264,444 for the main surgeon.