ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Crown Point, Ind.-based CBC Surgery Center partnered with Access HealthNet.

CMS has paved the way for price transparency between ASCs and hospital outpatient departments with a new tool that reveals the average payments for select procedures in both settings.

If your ASC can pay its bills on time, make regular distributions to its owners, and afford the occasional capital investment that helps drive growth, congratulations! Many ASCs struggle to accomplish one or more of these indicators of financial stability…

As hospitals lost key revenue-generating services to outpatient facilities, two-thirds of health systems saw their operating income drop between fiscal years 2015 and 2017, according to a Navigant report.

Medical Transcription Billing Corp. reported historic revenue growth in the third quarter of 2018, putting it on track for a record year. 

President Donald Trump's administration asked physicians and hospitals for help rewriting kickback regulations in what officials call a "regulatory sprint to coordinated care," The New York Times reports.

Baton Rouge-based Louisiana Spine & Sports co-owner Gray Wesley Barrow, MD, pleaded guilty Nov. 20 to involvement in an illegal healthcare kickback scheme, according to the Department of Justice.

Black Book survey results show that 82 percent of medical providers and 92 percent of hospitals have planned to abandon traditional manual efforts to back-end process and reconciling bills by the fourth quarter of 2018, according to Inside Arm.

If you have worked in an ASC over the past several years, one trend that has been hard to miss is the shift of financial responsibility from payers to patients.

Insurers may wrongly deny a claim and hope providers don't notice it's actually a covered service, according to medical coding and billing specialist Steven Verno.