Cost constraints often hinder facilities from attaining the most sophisticated scrubbing platforms to ensure minimal error rates and billing efficiencies. Staff attrition can also create deficiencies in an atmosphere that continues to grow in complexity. And lastly, carriers are always at risk in adjudicating claims correctly against fee schedules and more. Errors arise from human deficiencies but also from numerous platforms that have been built on top of one another and do

ERISA was enacted in large part to protect pension plans. It also imposes significant obligations onto qualified health and welfare benefit plans (QHWBP). Title I of ERISA contains a strict fiduciary code of conduct that must be adhered to by both plan sponsors and administrators. Under ERISA, plan fiduciaries are assigned with critical oversight functions concerning QHWBPs. They must act solely in the interest of plan participants and beneficiaries for the exclusive purpose

Training Staff to navigate the often uncertain terrain of financial communications is a challenge in itself. How do you prepare and train your staff for what may sometimes turn into a rather heated discussion? First, acknowledge that such discussions are only inevitable, especially if a patient or caregiver is overwhelmed by a newly diagnosed medical condition and they are feeling put off guard. Add to that the cumbersome task of finding health benefit information and it ca

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