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AMED plans to develop a document that could help patients appeal what the organization says are recent lower payments from insurance companies for ambulance services that leave patients responsible for larger amounts. Several years ago, commercial insurance firms would pay 80 percent of AMED’s bill — perhaps $1,520 on a $1,900 charge, according to AMED […]
AMED is making arrangements with Blair County that would enable the ambulance authority to prosecute patients for theft when those patients refuse to turn over insurance payments intended for AMED. In 2023 alone, AMED has lost $243,000 in revenue because patients enrolled with Highmark didn’t forward checks sent to them by the company after the […]
Authorities are seeking a former Highmark Health employee in South Carolina who they say used her job with the health care giant to withdraw or attempt to withdraw nearly $90,000 from eight victims’ health savings accounts. Zakayah A. Scott, 23, of Columbia, S.C., has been charged with nine counts of
Jardiance® associated with a total cost of care savings of more than 20%, according to results from an outcomes-based agreement between Boehringer Ingelheim and Highmark Share Article Highmark and Boehringer Ingelheim announced positive results from their outcomes-based agreement, which showed that adults with type 2 diabetes and known cardiovascular disease who took Jardiance® (empagliflozin) had a lower annual total cost of care compared with those prescribed other branded or generic anti-hyperglycemic medications. Patients on Jardiance demonstrated a reduction in medical costs of over 3...