ARM Professionals Look For Cost Containment in Health Care Reform

As health care reform advances on Capitol Hill with the approval Tuesday of a Senate Finance Committee bill, account receivables management professionals are weighing in on what they would like to see happen.

ACA International told insideARM that the top message it is receiving from its members is that they want lawmakers to focus on containing health care costs. But they also would like to see a system emerge that allows small businesses to aggregate their resources to get better health care coverage and lower premiums.

“Our members would like to see (a system) where they can pool their resources to gather the purchasing power of larger companies,” said Adam Peterman, ACA International’s government affairs director.