ACU-Serve, a provider of health-care revenue cycle optimization solutions, has introduced a new chief technology officer. Grant Porteous “will play a critical role in advancing ACU-Serve’s technology infrastructure and scaling its innovative solutions,” ACU-Serve said in a Feb. 18 press release. Porteous has more than 25 years’ experience in health-care technology and has “a proven…
ACU-Serve Welcomes New Chief Technology Officer
ACU-Serve Introduces Executive Vice President of Sales
Sidney S. Simmons III has joined ACU-Serve to support the company’s expansion.
ACU-Serve has hired an executive vice president of sales to support and capitalize on the company’s growth and momentum. The health-care revenue cycle optimization organization introduced Sidney S. Simmons III in a Jan. 28 news announcement. “Sid’s deep industry relationships, innovative strategies, and love for the product and people make him the ideal leader to…
Rethinking Compliance: Creating a Culture of Communication, Education for CRT Businesses
ACU-Serve’s Chief Compliance Officer Noel Neil on how — and why — to make compliance an everyday topic of conversation.
Compliance has been too often relegated to a mandatory all-staff lecture held in a conference room one day per year. It’s not exactly an event that Complex Rehab Technology (CRT) and home medical equipment (HME) teams look forward to … or perhaps think much about, after that meeting is over. But is that the best…
Case Example: Challenging a Medicare Advantage Denial
Q&A with Noel Neil, JM, CDME, ACU-Serve Corp.
An all-too-common complaint about Medicare Advantage (MA) plans is that they either deny claims that traditional Medicare fee-for-service would have approved, or that they require equipment providers, clinicians and patients to take extra steps to qualify for equipment — additional hoops to jump through that traditional Medicare would not have required. Those additional MA steps…