An extra $41 billion in healthcare costs could be saved annually if all appropriate procedures were performed in ASCs, according to Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Optum Payment Integrity Facility Ideation Leader Robin Richards.
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Fort Myers, Fla.-based Serbin Medical Billing outlined four ways ASCs can ensure financial stability when developing a new fee schedule.
CMS approved Alpha II's Registry as an eligible reporting registry for the 2019 Quality Payment Program year.
On Feb. 5, President Donald Trump delivered the State of the Union address covering a variety of issues, including trade policy, jobs growth and healthcare.
Fort Myers, Fla.-based Serbin Medical Billing outlined five ways ASCs can prevent revenue leaks through patient financial counseling and insurance verification.
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Healthcare organizations can improve their revenue cycle processes by addressing top billing challenges, according to TeleVox Solutions.
Predictive analytics represent the future of medicine for ASCs and other all healthcare organizations, and not just in the clinical sense.
Chuck Martin, R-Alpharetta, introduced a bill that would exempt integrated ASCs from certificate of need requirements, JD Supra reports.
A New Jersey court ruled auto insurers don't need to reimburse ASCs for codes in CMS' fee schedule if they aren't also included in a state's fee schedule, according to an FC&S Legal report reprinted by New Jersey Law Journal.
A federal court awarded 183 surgery centers a $4 million settlement in a class action lawsuit against Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey.