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December 2008 | healthcare Highlights from insideARM

In this edition of Inside Healthcare Receivables, we hear from healthcare analyst Michael Klozotsky on a potential growing trend in the way hospitals view their accounts receivable.

We are also featuring an article on the healthcare industry's outstretched hand to Congress recently, since Congress is just giving away cash.

As a public service to our readers, please be sure to check out the Baltimore Sun's investigative reporting series on bad medical debt collection in Maryland. The first of three articles ran today, and it should be an interesting series.

Please be sure to check out the most popular recent news stories from insideARM.com on healthcare at the bottom of the newsletter.

This Month's Featured Articles

Hospitals’ New Year’s Resolution 2009: More Aggressive Debt Collection Practices?

In a tough economy and with reform on the way, hospitals may pursue outstanding patient bills with increased vigor. It should come as no surprise to readers concerned about healthcare finance—directors and c-level business office personnel healthcare providers, healthcare collection mangers and executives, and medical debt buyers—that hospital and physician group bad debt is and has been on the rise. Nor it is any great revelation that placement volumes of medical paper to collection agencies have increased in 2008.

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Hospitals Quietly Seek Financial Assistance from Capitol Hill

The hospital industry may not be as blatant as other industries in its call for financial help in difficult economic times, but it is lobbying Congress for help funding health information technology and accessing capital markets.

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Most Popular Recent healthcare News

From insideARM

	New Illinois Law Could Benefit Medical Debt Recoveries for State Hospitals
	More Caps on Medicare and Medicaid no Solution to Rising Health Care Costs
	Electronic Medical Records May Provide Revenue for Providers and Patients
	Hospitals’ Strategy to Boost Medicaid Enrollments Could Hurt Industry’s Long Term Financial Stability
	Tough Economy, Holiday Pressures Call for Flexibility When Collecting Medical Debt
	Look for Collection Account Balances to Fall Under Universal Health Care, Not Volume

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