tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 10

Hospitals: What You Need To Know About Charging The Uninsured

HHS offers guidance, but hospitals still unclear on some points.Hospitals hoping for the Department of Health and Human Services to signal a definitive path through the murky regulatory terrain surrounding the billing of uninsured patients now have some guidance from HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson.Thompson on Feb. 19 responded to a request from American Hospital Association president Dick Davidson to help lift the "string of barriers" HHS has in place that make reducing charges incurred by uninsured and underinsured patients a tricky legal tightrope that few hospitals risk walking. The result, Davidson says, is poor patients saddled with...

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