Medical providers are currently being ripped off by third-party “payment processors/vendors” who are taking a fee from the provider’s contacted reimbursement in order for the provider to receive the payment they’re 100% entitled to      !

We are demanding CMS to step in and regular this practice! This is unfair to the provider who has negotiated fee reimbursements only for their payments to then be held hostage until the provider agrees to PAYING A FEE to RECEIVE A PAYMENT!   

ACH EFT is not subject to percentage-based payment fees
In order to achieve compliance with the HIPAA mandate requiring all health plans to offer ACH EFT upon request, some health plans use payment vendors to process ACH EFT payments. Many of these vendors offer ACH EFT payment options that charge physicians processing fees of up to 1.9% of the claims payment. HIPAA regulations require health plans to offer physicians an ACH EFT payment option that does not charge such percentage-based fees. Although vendors may be allowed to charge for value-added services designed to supplement the standard ACH EFT payments, a health plan must make available to physicians the ACH EFT standard payment at no additional cost beyond nominal, per-transaction processing fees of the banking network (approximately $0.34). This fee is usually assessed by the physician’s bank.