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| Written by Dana Cutter |
| Sunday, 07 June 2009 11:24 |
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How well does your insurer rank on paying their doctors?The rankings were prepared by Athenahealth Inc., a Watertown company that helps doctors handle billing and records electronically, in collaboration with the Physicians Practice management journal. The 2009 PayerView Rankings, which are being posted online today at www.athenahealth.com/PayerView, evaluated 172 national, regional, and government payers in 40 states. They open a window onto some of the myriad complexities and bureaucratic obstacles weighing down the medical billing process, with each insurer handling the itemizing or modifications of medical charges in different ways, subject to varying contracts and payment timetables. by Robert Weisman, May 28, 2009 , Globe Staff, Read more on Boston.com
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts took an average of 22.8 days to pay physicians who submitted claims last year, the fastest rate among Massachusetts health insurers, the rankings show. Tufts Health Plan, meanwhile, denied 4.9 percent of its claims, the smallest share among the five large payers billed by Bay State medical providers.
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