Payment overwhelm is costing health systems cash, staff time, and patient trust. Smarter communication and more efficient payment processing can help. For years, health systems have invested deeply in ...

A new report shows hospitals in Virginia filed 1. 15 million lawsuits against patients over unpaid medical bills between 2010 ...

Medical bills are complicated, and sometimes they include charges that the law doesn’t allow. Some bans are federal and protect most patients, while others are state-specific or apply to Medicaid or ...

While chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT can help narrow the information divide between patients and providers, they can also ...

The numbers arrive without warning, often weeks after the crisis has passed, stamped in clinical language and coded in ways few patients understand — turning moments of vulnerability into prolonged ...

Oregon is the first state to require nonprofit hospitals to figure out if a patient qualifies for free or discounted care ...

WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWTI) – Samaritan Medical Center has announced a new partnership with a Syracuse-based billing partner. SMC has partnered with Kopp Billing Agency to manage patient billing services, ...