Managed Healthcare Executive December 2, 2021
Identifying the right payer before a healthcare service is provided and billing on time, reduces costs, prevents bad debt and maximizes reimbursements and revenue.
Recent data from the CMS indicates that Medicaid enrollment grew by nearly 10 million between February 2020 and January 2021. The jump was precipitated by a combination of factors, including the economic fallout of the pandemic and the Coronavirus Relief Act adopted by Congress that gives states extra federal money to keep people on Medicaid rolls until the end of the public health emergency.
Despite the spike in enrollment, the Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that the overall uninsured rate may not have changed substantially with tens of millions of people still without coverage.
Why do people...