While California's surprise billing law has protected patients from unexpected out-of-network expenses, physicians argue the bill has given insurers an unfair advantage in their negotiations with physicians, California Healthline reports.
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
When ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) allocate the time to monitor and benchmark key performance indicators (KPIs), they gain better control over their revenue cycle performance. This helps with identifying problems that drag down revenue and profits and then implementing solutions…
ASC software developer Surgical Information Systems shared tips on improving surgery center coding performance.
Single-specialty ASCs represented 61 percent of all ASCs billing Medicare in 2017, according to a report by Global Healthcare Advisors, an investment bank focused on healthcare mergers and acquisitions.
When it comes to procedure documentation, manual transcription and dictation is expensive. Transcription and printing are costly. In addition, paper-based processes contribute to inefficient workflows, unstructured data that's hard to analyze and documentation that is inaccurate, incomplete and potentially non-compliant.
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The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against an Orlando-based urologist and the outpatient surgery center where he performed procedures over alleged anti-kickback violations, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
As ASCs become increasingly popular among patients, these facilities will encounter new challenges when it comes to collections, according to Mnet Health.
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The outlook for the ambulatory surgery center (ASC) market continues to be positive.