09 May 2025 The High Cost of Denial: How Health Insurers’ Payment Practices Harm Hospitals and Patients For years, a troubling pattern has emerged in the healthcare industry: health insurance companies are increasingly resorting to complex tactics… Joy Stephenson-Laws, Managing Partner
05 May 2025 The Crisis of Affordability and Underinsurance: America’s Healthcare Struggle In the United States, healthcare insurance is meant to provide peace of mind, ensuring medical care without catastrophic financial risk…. Joy Stephenson-Laws, Managing Partner
04 Apr 2024 Ageism Jeopardizes Community and Provider Health There is a very subtle bias that can impact all populations regardless of race or gender. This bias is commonly… Joy Stephenson-Laws, Managing Partner
26 Jan 2024 Medication Errors Persist Despite Provider Efforts Despite a concerted effort by the healthcare community, preventable medication errors continue to put both patients and providers alike at… Joy Stephenson-Laws, Managing Partner
05 Jul 2023 An Ounce of Front-End Prevention A little over a year ago, SAC founder and managing partner, Joy Stephenson-Laws, wrote here about the importance of appealing… Wyatt Kozinski, Esq.
24 Jan 2023 Increasing Levels of Workplace Violence Pose Multiple Threats to Providers There is extensive media coverage of the various epidemics and other public health crises that providers valiantly face daily. However, … Joy Stephenson-Laws, Managing Partner
12 Oct 2022 The Shameful Practice of Patient Dumping Continues to Threaten Community Health The term “patient dumping” refers to certain practices some healthcare providers use to remove uninsured or lower income patients from… Joy Stephenson-Laws, Managing Partner
18 Jul 2022 Supporting Patients in Appealing Claim Denials Is Worth the Effort Providers are now reaching some level of “new normal” with the pandemic becoming more of an endemic. They can identify… Joy Stephenson-Laws, Managing Partner