Accredited Healthcare Business Associates Now Accepting Membership Applications

RANCHO MIRAGE, CALIFORNIA — The Accredited Healthcare Business Associates (AHBA) program has begun accepting applications for accreditation from companies in the Accounts Receivable Management (ARM) and Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) industries that serve healthcare providers across the U.S.

The program is a not-for-profit subsidiary of Healthcare Business Associates, Inc., and was created to provide outsourcing decision makers at hospitals, clinics, and physicians groups with a single resource to identify quality service partners—collection agencies, debt buyers, medical billing firms, and RCM companies—whose central business focus is on the healthcare industry and who have met AHBA accreditation standards that were created by healthcare providers and ARM industry specialists.

“This program was formed to better serve the common needs to both healthcare providers and their service partners,” said Jack Nixon, founder of the AHBA program.  

“Numerous forces, not the least of which is the insurance reform bill before Congress, are driving providers to pay particular attention to both the quality of care and the business services they offer their patients, from the point-of-sale to the moment that some accounts roll into a collection stream,” Nixon said.  “As an independent accreditation body governed by members who face the business challenges of the healthcare market every day, AHBA can assist providers in the evaluation of competent, quality-conscious, business services companies.”

About AHBA
The mission of AHBA is to provide the healthcare industry access to a qualified group of companies who have dedicated their service to improving healthcare A/R management, cash flow, and compliance, and to pair those Accounts Receivable Management and Revenue Cycle Management companies with healthcare providers who require their expertise as business partners.

Upon earning accreditation through the AHBA program, companies from the ARM and RCM industries will have information about their firms’ services posted on AHBA’s dedicated website, and their accreditation will be announced to thousands of healthcare provider organizations through AHBA’s participation as an Associate Member of the American Hospital Association (AHA).

For further information about the program, please visit the AHBA website at:
www.accreditedhba.org.