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OCTOBER 13, 2022

A healthcare provider and the collection agency working on the provider’s accounts are facing a class-action lawsuit alleging they violated a recently enacted state law in New Mexico by engaging in debt collection activities before verifying whether the incomes of those patients protected them from such activities.

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JUNE 8, 2021

Maryland Healthcare Collection Bill Becomes Law; Judge Partially Grants MSJ in FDCPA Case appeared first on AccountsRecovery.net.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

The Attorney General of Minnesota is investigating the billing and collection practices of a well-know healthcare provider, following a published report that detailed how the provider is filing collection lawsuits to recover unpaid medical debts from low-income patients.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

MORE AMERICANS ‘STRUGGLING’ TO PAY HEALTHCARE BILLS: SURVEY About 40% of Americans are having trouble managing their medical bills and have had at least one bill sent to collections, according to a survey conducted by U.S. News & World Report this month.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

Healthcare patients are still “clamoring” for more advances to improve billing and payment solutions, according to the results of an annual survey conducted by Cedar, a healthcare financial engagement platform.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Collector Files Motion to Have Plaintiff’s Attorney Disqualified; How Healthcare Providers are Overhauling Collections appeared first on AccountsRecovery.net.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

About 40% of Americans are having trouble managing their medical bills and have had at least one bill sent to collections, according to a survey conducted by U.S. News & World Report this month.

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MARCH 28, 2022

Thomas Donovan, the Attorney General of Vermont has reached a settlement with a healthcare provider that will require the provider to use a professional debt collection agency, while also being barred from collecting certain old debts and paying a fine of $10,000, half of which was suspended because it cooperated in the investigation.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Judge Denies MTD in FDCPA Case; Consumers Paying More for Healthcare Leads to Lower Collection Rates appeared first on AccountsRecovery.net.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A bill is moving through the legislature in Ohio that would halt the collection of all debts owed to any state college or university and any hospital operated by a college or university while also pausing the accrual of interest and collection fees on those debts. The bill was introduced by Rep.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Wakefield & Associates, a leading healthcare revenue cycle solutions company, announced today that Collect Rx has joined the Wakefield organization.

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OCTOBER 2, 2020

Healthcare providers are bracing for a seismic shift in where their money comes from, and collection agencies are likely to play a bigger role in a post-COVID-19 world, according to the results of a survey.

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American Profit Recovery

APRIL 22, 2022

There is one simple fact that we know from handling debt collections for health care professionals across the country for many years. Healthcare offices that do not pay attention to proper billing and cash flow will have a challenge just like any other type of business. Medical collection agencies remove awkward conversations.

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APRIL 11, 2022

If enacted, the process of identifying those … The post Maryland Legislature Advances Bill Requiring Refunds to Patients Who Were Eligible for Free Healthcare appeared first on AccountsRecovery.net.

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JUNE 4, 2021

The Attorney General of Massachusetts has announced a settlement with a healthcare provider that will see the company pay $260,000 — including a civil penalty of $185,000 — after it was accused of failing to disclose to patients that it was not part of their insurance network and seeking to collect “unfairly high charges.”

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The influx of media reports aimed at spotlighting “aggressive” collection efforts by hospitals and healthcare networks has led to a “substantial” decline in the number of lawsuits filed against individuals with unpaid healthcare debts, according to a new study.

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MARCH 19, 2021

The Oklahoma Senate has passed a bill that would prohibit healthcare providers from reporting unpaid debts to a credit reporting agency or placing them with a collection agency unless the patient was provided with a “good faith estimate” of the cost of the services prior to them being rendered.

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JUNE 9, 2022

The governor of Colorado yesterday signed a bill into law that will prohibit healthcare facilities from pursuing debt collection activities against individuals with unpaid medical bills unless those facilities are in compliance with federal price transparency guidelines.

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APRIL 15, 2021

In a case that was defended by the team at Malone Frost Martin, the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s ruling in favor of a defendant that was sued for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act because it did not include a copy of the original creditor’s financial … The post Appeals Court Affirms (..)

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Leaving out something that is “so basic in the business world,” that is “arouses suspicions” why it was done in the first place, a plaintiff has filed a class-action lawsuit accusing a collector of violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act … The post Daily Digest – November 29. The post Daily Digest – November 29.

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APRIL 9, 2021

Judge Partially Grants MTD in Class-Action; Bill Introduced to Forgive Healthcare Workers’ Student Loans appeared first on AccountsRecovery.net.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

The Governor of New York yesterday announced a number of healthcare-related proposes during her State of the State address, including a plan to include medical debt in the state’s Consumer Credit Fairness Act. Governor’s Agenda Includes Medical Debt Collection Initiatives first appeared on AccountsRecovery.net. The post N.Y.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

million settlement has been reached in a debt collection case involving two healthcare providers. In a case that has been winding through the legal system for more than eight years, including two trips to the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and back, a $3.5 The Background: Back in 2015, the plaintiffs filed suit, […]

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JULY 8, 2022

A collection agency based in Colorado was the victim of a ransomware attack that affected more than 650 of its healthcare clients, according to published reports.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

A nonprofit healthcare system that is being sued by the Attorney General of Washington and which was the subject of a profile in The New York Times for the “pressure” it put on patients to pay their debts has announced it is going to refund payments made by more than 700 low-income patients who were … The post Hospital Sued for ‘Aggressive’ (..)

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against a debt collector, accusing it of making it look like the collector purchased debts from a healthcare provider when it had not done so and for violating a state collection law in Colorado. A copy of the complaint in the case of Zachary Waite and Cathy Wood-Sullivan v.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A nonprofit healthcare system that is already being sued by the Attorney General of Washington for its debt collection practices has now been spotlighted by The New York Times for the “pressure” it put on patients to pay their debts, even though they may have been eligible for charity care.

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APRIL 9, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare payments, a recent survey by JPMorgan Chase has shed light on critical trends that debt collection professionals in the healthcare sector must pay attention to.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against a pair of healthcare providers, alleging they violated state law in California by sending confidential medical information to a third-party collection agency, which was subsequently publicized as a result of a data breach.

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Account Recovery

AUGUST 15, 2022

The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a whistleblower lawsuit filed against a collection agency that was accused of writing off bad debts owed to Medicare without undergoing reasonable collection efforts, while affirming the dismissal in favor of the healthcare provider and the billing company (..)

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Account Recovery

MAY 25, 2022

A complaint has been filed in federal court in California accusing a number of healthcare providers and a collection agency of violating state law as well as the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by attempting to collect on a debt that was incurred as a result of injuries suffered while the plaintiff was working and … The post Complaint Accuses (..)

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

The University of Virginia Health System is back in the headlines again, this time being accused of attaching liens to patients’ property as a means of collecting on unpaid debts. UVA … The post Virginia Hospital Network Spotlighted For Filing Liens to Collect on Unpaid Debts appeared first on AccountsRecovery.net.

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JULY 21, 2023

In a time where the lines between healthcare and finance are increasingly blurred, one company is standing out: Collectly, a patient financial engagement software platform that announced yesterday it raised $29 million in Series A funding round led by Sapphire Ventures. million.

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Account Recovery

APRIL 6, 2021

Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico signed 50 bills into law yesterday, including one that aims to protect low-income residents of the state from incurring medical debts by preventing healthcare providers from placing collection accounts or filing lawsuits against certain low-income individuals, according to a published report.

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MARCH 3, 2021

Medical Debt Collection Bill Leads to F-Bomb, Vow of Filibuster on State Senate Floor appeared first on AccountsRecovery.net.

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MARCH 23, 2021

CORAL SPRINGS, FLORIDA, March 22, 2021—Meduit, one of the 10 largest healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions companies, has consolidated customer communications management (CCM), digital delivery and print/mail services with Nordis Technologies.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

A healthcare provider has reached a settlement in a lawsuit that accused it of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by not sending collection letters to a blind patient in braille, as the patient requested.

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