When a health insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, the company generates a file around your claim. All the records associated with your case should be part of your ...

Medical service providers are responsible for billing insurance companies for their patients’ services and procedures. To do so, they must file medical claims as part of the medical billing process.

U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), a member of House Ways and Means Committee, today praised a decision by the Accredited Standards Committee X12 to finally recommend that Unique Device ...

We’ve all done it before: sat in a doctor’s office and filled out a lengthy form with our insurance information. The reason for all that information is to ensure your doctor can properly file a claim ...

A letter arrives in the mail. Oh, great: It’s from your health insurance company. It contains some variation on the phrase “Your claim has been denied” and possibly “You may file an appeal to ...

Many Americans are struggling to pay their medical bills due to inadequate health insurance coverage or claim denials at the hands of private insurers. Insurers deny between 10% and 20% of health care ...

WASHINGTON, June 18-- The office of Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts sent a letter to Food and ...

Federal data shows that health insurance companies denied more than 49 millions claims in 2021, but customers appealed less than 0.2 percent of them. Investigative journalists at ProPublica found that ...

Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...

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