A lot of health plans consider any bill presented more than a year from the date of service forfeited. Medical billing is notoriously slow, opaque, and fragment

A lot of health plans consider any bill presented more than a year from the date of service forfeited. Medical billing is notoriously slow, opaque, and fragmented. On the insurance side they tend to be super slow in payment running 120 days behind forcing the hospital to de facto provide vendor credit to insurance companies that are way better capitalized than they are.