When a health insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, the company generates a file around your claim. All the records associated with your case should be part of your ...

Medical service providers are responsible for billing insurance companies for their patients’ services and procedures. To do so, they must file medical claims as part of the medical billing process.

We’ve all done it before: sat in a doctor’s office and filled out a lengthy form with our insurance information. The reason for all that information is to ensure your doctor can properly file a claim ...

A letter arrives in the mail. Oh, great: It’s from your health insurance company. It contains some variation on the phrase “Your claim has been denied” and possibly “You may file an appeal to ...

FDA, in a 2013 final rule, made it a requirement that most medical devices distributed in the United States carry a UDI as a patient safety measure. Current health insurance claims forms, however, ...

U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), a member of House Ways and Means Committee, today praised a decision by the Accredited Standards Committee X12 to finally recommend that Unique Device ...

Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans seeking preventative care are “substantially” more likely to have their claims denied by ...

Federal data shows that health insurance companies denied more than 49 millions claims in 2021, but customers appealed less than 0.2 percent of them. Investigative journalists at ProPublica found that ...

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