Hearing on Hospital Billing
and Collection Practices Announced
June 4, 2004 - Representative James Greenwood (R-Pa.),
chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on
Oversight and Investigations, has scheduled a June 10 hearing
entitled, “A Review of Hospital Billing and Collection
Practices.” While a list of the witnesses have yet be
to officially identified, the AAMC anticipates that a handful
of hospital and health system leaders, including former AAMC
Chairman Herb Pardes, M.D., chief executive officer of New
York Presbyterian Hospital, will be testifying on the issue,
as well as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS) and the Inspector General.
The hearing is a follow-up to July 16, 2003 letters
sent by former full House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman
Billy Tauzin (R-La.) and Subcommittee Chairman Greenwood to
20 hospital and health systems inquiring about billing inequalities
many uninsured patients face during hospital visits.
Information:
Lynne Davis Boyle, Assistant Vice President
AAMC Government Relations
ldavisboyle@aamc.org
(202) 828-0526
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