ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

ASC software company HST Pathways will acquire revenue cycle management solutions company Clariti Health to increase price transparency at ASC practices.

Automation tools have been a key part of boosting collections and managing finances at MidLantic Urology, controller Maryanne Thompson said.

Multiple physicians and chiropractors have agreed to pay the federal government millions of dollars over the past six months to resolve fraudulent billing allegations related to pain management procedures.

David Schwartz, former pharmacy director of a Dallas hospital, alleges that he was fired for airing concerns that an affiliated surgery center was fraudulently overbilling state and federal payers, according to Bloomberg Law.

The complexity of medical coding makes accurate and streamlined surgical documentation critical; if the notes lack necessary detail, the billing and reimbursements may be wrong, ultimately costing the provider money.

For some time now, humans as a species have been intrigued by the possibility of creating machines that could mimic the human brain.

Springfield (Ill.) Clinic accused Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois of terminating its in-network provider agreement without warning, according to an ABC affiliate News Channel 20.

Three Texas physician practices settled billing fraud allegations related to neurostimulator devices, according to a June 10 Justice Department statement.

Commercial insurers are changing their policies to deny hospitals and ASCs payment for services deemed unnecessary or lacking enough evidence to move forward.

A Houston-based chiropractor and her practice are paying $2.6 million and foregoing participation in federal healthcare programs for a decade to resolve billing fraud allegations, according to a June 8 Justice Department statement.