In 2011, Mercury Advisory Group was engaged to consult with over 1400 healthcare providers to assist them with managed care contract negotiations and renegotiation strategic planning. Many of these providers were ambulatory surgery centers that were freestanding endoscopy centers, while others were hospital outpatient department extensions. Still others were integrated health delivery systems and...
The Insurance Refund Request: A Legal Analysis
By Sarah O. Rollman, JD, MSA Bryant L. Welch, J.D., Ph.D., & Associates, Potomac, Maryland. This article is shared by permission of the HFMA, in whose publication it appeared in December, 1998. Summary: When insurance carriers and employee benefit plan administrators discover a payment made in error for medical services or supplies, they ask the...
Agile Documentation Applied to Healthcare: An Introduction
What is Agile? Agile is an approach to product development that is based on iterative and incremental development. In 2001, software developers met in Utah and drew up with the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. The aim of the manifesto was to find better ways to develop software as a product. Is the business of healthcare...