MEDICAL BILLING NEWS
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Archive December, 2023
In the sixth year of KFF Health News-NPR’s “Bill of the Month” series, readers shared more than 750 tales of medical billing problems, contributing to our ongoing effort to investigate the financial consequences of becoming sick or injured in the United States — and empower patients to advocate for themselves.
- KFF Health News
- Times-Tribune / KFF Health
- NorthJersey.com
Medical bills are often stressful, but they should at least be sent in a timely fashion. If they’re sent too late, more than 10 months after the medical services provided, patients are not obligated to pay more than what would not have been covered by their insurance carrier, according to a Texas law passed in 1999.
- San Antonio Express-News
Last year, Elyse Greenblatt of New York City scheduled a telehealth appointment through her usual health system to see if her nagging congestion was COVID-19. The appointment turned out to be nearly $700.
- National Public Radio
New pricing data should help employers, health plans rein in costs, researchers say
- Market Watch
The CFPB said that the company “failed to conduct reasonable investigations of disputed debts and failed to inform consumer reporting companies that certain information was being disputed … (and) continued to attempt to collect disputed debts without substantiating documentation.”
- The-CNN-Wire
- The Hill
- WFAE
Why did one ER visit cost thousands more?
- Dominion Post
Laurie Cook, of Nashville, TN, is fighting a hospital bill that is more than 11 times more than what the hospital had estimated.
- USA Today
The Cleveland Emergency Hospital in The Woodlands billed a man's insurance $118,620 after his daughter's chin laceration was left untreated.
- ABC13 KTRK-TV
The bipartisan Lower Costs, More Transparency Act includes site-neutral payment policies that hospitals have lobbied against.
- Healthcare Dive