After serving the Inland region for 43 years, Inter Valley Health Plan will shut down operations at the end of the year due to declining enrollment. The nonprofit Medicare Advantage healthcare insurance provider found it “difficult to compete in the current environment against companies with benefits and marketing budgets supported by membership in the millions,” CEO Michael Nelson said in a statement.
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.
