AHC Healthcare Receivables Management Partners with Tucson Medical Center to Discuss Ways to Fight Insurance Denials at TX AAHAM Education Conference
The Texas Chapter of the American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management (AAHAM) Education Conference was held November 10th in Irving, TX. Speakers from AHC Healthcare Receivables Management and Tucson Medical Center provided education on successfully managing "usual and customary" denials.
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 www.ahcinc.com.
About AHC
AHC Healthcare Receivables Management (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
www.ahcinc.com
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