Collect data, monitor claims receipts to ensure prompt Medicare, Medicaid payment.

Abstract

What to do when your Medicare or Medicaid plan pays claims late. Doctors in New Mexico say they're going broke because health plans don't pay for months. But managed care plans with commercial lives aren't the only plans that pay claims late. Plans with Medicare and Medicaid lives also can have payment problems. Find out how the physicians in New Mexico are tackling the problem, and see what you can do to prevent it from happening to you.