Jason Nelms is the new vice president of revenue cycle at Cone Health. Nelms provides leadership and expertise for the team that tackles billing and payments—and the array of issues connected with them. Those issues include price transparency, improving the patient experience, processing payments and working through claims denials.
Arizonans will decide Proposition 209, a statewide ballot measure that would lower the maximum interest rates on medical debt and change several rules on general consumer debt collection.
The No Surprises Act signed into law in 2020 contained provisions intended to address unexpected gaps in insurance coverage that result in “surprise medical bills,” instances in which patients unknowingly obtained medical services from physicians and other health care providers outside their health insurance network.
The AHA urged the National Labor Relations Board to withdraw a notice of proposed rulemaking regarding the standard for determining joint-employer status or, consistent with the board’s historical approach, exempt hospitals from compliance.
AHA urged the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to order the Department of Health and Human Services to promptly repay 340B hospitals for unlawful payment cuts in previous years, given the agency’s continued delay in implementing or even proposing a remedy on its own.