AHC Healthcare Receivables Management Partners with Tucson Medical Center to Discuss Ways to Fight Insurance Denials at TX AAHAM Education Conference

Manassas, Va. (PRWEB) November 20, 2006

Nationally recognized healthcare reimbursement experts, Tracy Knowles, Esq., Senior Vice President for AHC, and Maria Persons, Corporate Director of Patient Financial Services for Tucson Medical Center, recently provided education to the Texas Chapter of AAHAM. Their seminar, Managing Usual and Customary Denials, discussed the manner in which healthcare providers can develop a payer specific approach to resolve reimbursement reduction issues. The educational conference was attended by over 60 individuals from hospitals and health systems, specialized healthcare providers, and sponsoring organizations.

Representative provider organizations in attendance included:

Arlington Memorial Hospital

Baylor Health Care System

Children's Medical Center

East Texas Medical Center

Harris Methodist Southlake

HCA Healthcare

Hill Country Memorial Hospital

Hopkins County Memorial Hospital

Hunt Memorial Hospital District

Methodist Health System

Parkland Health & Hospital System

Texas Health Resources

Triumph Healthcare

University Medical Center

UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Wilson N. Jones

Workshop attendees received education on the various tactics employed by payers, state statutes, federal regulations, case law, correct guidelines utilized in determining "reasonableness" of charges for each payer type, and appropriateness of patient involvement in each payer situation.

Comments from the session evaluation forms included:

"Excellent presentation, excellent speaker team, extremely relevant to the job."

"I like their confidence and examples of how to counter payer tactics."

"Wonderful 'real life' examples given during presentation."

Having completed over 160 seminars this year, AHC maintains their commitment to the healthcare community by providing complimentary, on-site healthcare reimbursement education. Interested parties who wish to schedule a complimentary workshop for their hospital business office staff may contact AHC at (888) 511-7901 or visit http://www.ahcinc.com.

About AHC

AHC Healthcare Receivables Management (http://www.ahcinc.com) provides technology enabled accounts receivables management solutions and complimentary education offerings for the healthcare community. Employing over 500 healthcare reimbursement professionals, approximately 100 of which are attorneys, AHC utilizes federal and state regulations, established case law, and client specific protocols to provide guaranteed results to our 760 clients nationwide. AHC has offices in Virginia, New York, Florida, Illinois, and California.

Media Contact:

Holly Binkley

Executive Director, Education and Marketing

AHC Healthcare Receivables Management

888.511.7901

http://www.ahcinc.com

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