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Article: HOSPITALS PROMPTING `PROMPT PAY' BILLS.
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- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- September 13, 1999
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Although hospitals largely have stayed out of Congress' managed-care fray, they are giving limited support to measures that could speed health plans' payments to providers.
Two leading House bills would require managed-care plans to pay virtually all of their claims within a month. They would extend to commercial plans the conditions that Medicare imposes on its HMOs, which are required to pay 90% of their correctly coded claims for simple services within 30 days.
Such measures are included in bipartisan legislation introduced earlier this summer by Reps. Charlie Norwood (R-Ga.) and John Dingell (D-Mich.), and a Republican bill released last week by ...