title: Contracted payers: the latest challengers to hospital billed charges.
abstract: The latest challenges to billed charges come from an unexpected source-the hospital's contracted payers. Understanding these challenges, and their legal basis, is important to protecting your hospital's contracts.
authors.affiliation: Murphy Austin Adams Schoenfeld, LLP, Sacramento, CA, USA. ffedor@murphyaustin.com
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fedor
mesh_terms: D032982:Contracts / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D017722:Hospital Charges / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D007344:Insurance Claim Reporting; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement; D035846:Law Enforcement; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011907:Rate Setting and Review; D014481:United States