NBC 5 Responds has been looking into how scammers are using your medical information to con insurance companies into paying out big bucks in a scam that has impacted people across Illinois.

Medical billing errors are a common problem that ... on the news you need to know with the Chicago Catch-Up newsletter. Illinois’ Fair Patient Billing Act is clear: Patients must be notified ...

Proposed Illinois legislation aimed at reducing medical debt by requiring hospitals ... Illinois lawmakers are proposing to amend the Fair Patient Billing Act by requiring each Illinois hospital ...

A physician in Illinois has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for billing Medicaid and private insurers for nonexistent and unnecessary services.  Mona Ghosh, MD, owned and operated a medical ...

An Indian-American doctor was sentenced to 10 years in prison for defrauding federal health programmes and private insurers ...

SB 2442 – Hospitals will be prohibited from billing uninsured patients ... containing information related to medical debt. SB ...

The Justice Department alleged that MedicOne Medical Response routinely billed Medicare for regularly scheduled dialysis treatments when the services did not meet Medicare requirements ...

The appointment was at a family medicine practice run by University of Illinois ... by the medical provider and captured on the bill. There’s still confusion about such billing matters 15 ...

Some of the topics covered include provider credentialing, payer contracting, medical coding ... use by any organization in Illinois at IPHA’s Third-Party Billing webpage: https://ipha.com ...