RevCycle Intelligence January 8, 2024
Jacqueline LaPointe

Most hospitals don’t meet new medical billing measures added to the Leapfrog Group’s 2022 survey, a recent study shows.

Most hospitals do not have high medical billing quality, including patient access to a qualified billing representative and timely itemized billing statements.

A recent study published in JAMA analyzed medical billing quality for over 2,200 hospitals based on the Leapfrog Group’s new measures added to the 2022 survey. The Leapfrog Group, a national employer consortium, conducts an annual survey of US hospitals to determine quality for benchmarking and accountability.

In the 2022 survey, the Leapfrog Group added billing quality measures, including legal actions taken by hospitals to collect medical debt, timeliness of sending patients an itemized billing statement, and patient access...

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