Billing resources

UCHealth provides patient education information to help patients understand and manage the complex healthcare billing process through a variety of resources:

Healthcare resources (external websites):

• Medicare
• Affordable care act
• Medicaid
• How do I appeal a health plan denial?

HIPAA

• HIPAA is the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. The primary goal of the law is to make it easier for people to keep health insurance, protect the confidentiality and security of healthcare information ad help the healthcare industry control administrative costs.
• When contacting any of our business offices, we are required to verify necessary areas of security for the protection of our patients. We verify items such as address, phone number, date of birth and last four digits of patient social security number, but are not limited to these items