ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Beverly Hills, Calif.-based Center for Advanced Facial Plastic Surgery will accept cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin starting in January, the center said Dec. 20.

Whistleblowers stand to receive a portion of the proceeds from a settlement or financial recovery, which can be hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars.

A federal jury on Dec. 16 found a former physician and his company guilty of a scheme to defraud private insurers and the Tricare program by submitting about $355 million in false claims.

The owner of two Montana-based vascular surgery centers agreed to pay millions to resolve allegations that he performed and billed for medically unnecessary procedures.

In November, CMS updated hospital price transparency regulation for hospitals with more than 30 beds.

A Mississippi physician and his practice have agreed to pay $375,000 to resolve allegations of improperly billing Medicare in violation of the False Claims Act, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi said Dec. 13.

The owner of an Atlanta-based medical group and his practice will pay millions to resolve kickback allegations brought by a former employed physician, according to a Dec. 8 Justice Department statement.

Most physicians have difficulty estimating out-of-pocket medication expenses even when they have access to patients' drug and insurance information, according to a study published in November in JAMA Network Open.

A partially physician-owned hospital in Flower Mound, Texas, will pay millions to resolve allegations that it violated Stark Law, and the physician partner who blew the whistle will receive $3 million, according to a Dec. 2 Justice Department news release.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists condemned BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina's alleged abuse of the No Surprises Act to coerce clinicians and practices into network agreements in a Nov. 22 statement shared with Becker's.