Monitor Mondays

Pick up any healthcare news feed or relevant state or federal initiative, and no doubt you will see the "surprise billing" issue headlining. The issue of a patient not knowing that a provider is not in their network is important, but there is another major cause of surprise bills: insurance plans denying legitimate claims for emergency care as "non-emergent." Prudent acts among patients are ignored, common sense is discarded, and ethical conduct is cast aside in order to insist that patients pay astronomical bills for services that truly constitute emergency care. These battles can take years. One such case will be discussed during this edition of Monitor Mondays; reporting our lead story will be Holly Louie, herself once an emergency department nurse.Other segments to appear on the broadcast include:Monday Focus: Bogus Charity Write-offs: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) created a new provision in Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code that applies to facilities li