Alliance of Claims Assistance Professionals

06/14/2025

Charity Care…Don’t be Embarrassed to Ask

Most hospitals offer assistance with medical bills through charity care, or financial need applications. While the existence of these funds is often not actively publicized by the facilities, they are available and accessible to patients at varying income levels.
In a recent case, a client with more than $10,000 in hospital and related-provider bills reached out to us, to help reduce their financial liability. After successfully navigating the patient through the financial need application process, we were able to erase $8,000 in charges and are now finalizing the same process with the affiliated providers who are recognizing the hospital’s determination of financial need for the patient.
We recommend that the first step that patients with excessive hospital bills should take is to investigate what funds might be available for those in financial need. Keep in mind, don’t be afraid to hear “no” as the answer.

You are no worse off than if you didn’t ask, but you will frequently hear “yes,” and this, after all, is your goal.

-Robert Berman from SysteMedic, Inc.

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04/21/2025

Post a medical bill question. See if we can help.

04/04/2025

Judge Blocks H.H.S. From Terminating $11 Billion in Public Health Grants

04/04/2025

Numbers to share

Only 11% of people filed appeals for Medicare Advantage denials. Of those appeals, 80% were successful in approving medical care.

03/23/2025

Simply frustrated the direction healthcare and health insurance is heading

05/01/2022

Counterfeit At-Home OTC COVID-19 Diagnostic Tests

• Counterfeit Flowflex COVID-19 Test Kits
• Counterfeit iHealth COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test Kits

What are some signs that an at-home OTC COVID-19 diagnostic test may be counterfeit?

Poor print quality of images or text on the outside box label for the product or in the instructions for use included in the box.
Missing information on the outside box label for the product, such as the lot number, expiration date, or barcode or QR codes.
Grammatical or spelling errors found in product labeling.
Components of the kits do not match the content description (for example, missing Instructions for Use, missing or unfilled components, different number of components than listed).
Tradename for product printed on component or box labels differ from the authorized labeling found on the FDA website: At-Home OTC COVID-19 Diagnostic Tests | FDA.
The box label or printed instructions for use look different from the authorized labeling found on the FDA website: At-Home OTC COVID-19 Diagnostic Tests | FDA.

10/07/2013

For those whom are still in the dark:
ObamaCare = Affordable Care Act.
For clarity the full name of the federal statute is Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. As such it was signed into a law is 2010. Later it was challenged and confirmed to be constitutional by the Supreme Court.

02/26/2013

Very interesting article regarding the cost of medical care.

How outrageous pricing and egregious profits are destroying our health care

02/26/2013

Please check out this article written by one of our own Mary Kessel.
Medicare Basics For 2013 for Working Seniors and Dependents

01/19/2012

U.S. Seeks Rollback of a Health Insurer’s ‘Excessive’ Rate Increase

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/health/policy/white-house-calls-increases-in-health-insurance-rates-too-high.html

The Obama administration ordered a health insurance company to rescind the rate increases it sought or justify its refusal to do so.