The Healthcare Billing & Management Association (HBMA), a non-profit educational resource and advocacy group representing third-party medical billers and billing professionals, announced that it presented member survey findings to executives of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) at Institute 2009 in San Diego, Calif. in June. Presenting on behalf of HBMA member organizations, representatives discussed ways in which billing services and commercial payers can better work together to manage claims processing and related transactions more efficiently and effectively.

"HBMA is committed to its ongoing outreach efforts and is focused on securing cost reductions that will ultimately benefit all stakeholders, including payers, providers and patients," says Brad Lund, HBMA executive director. "As part of HBMA's efforts, we will also be reaching out to individual health insurance companies to identify practical administrative simplification solutions."