Business Services Industry
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Admits to Medical Billing Error.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2004
By Sarah Skidmore, The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 23--An error by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida may have caused thousands of patients to be billed more for their medical care than necessary. The insurer said it solved the glitch last year, but some patients and providers said they are still struggling with after-effects.
The Jacksonville-based insurer changed its billing system in April because of new federal privacy and coding rules. According to Blue Cross spokesman Mark Wright, a mistake in the new coding caused a miscalculation of the patients' portions of charges when treated by certain providers. Patients who received service from April 1 to July 31, 2003, may have initially...
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
Presented by American Express