ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

The Healthcare Financial Management Association published a consumer guide hospitals and health systems can distribute to patients to help them avoid surprise medical bills.

CMS assigned a specific and permanent reimbursement J-code through the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System for EyePoint Pharmaceuticals' DEXYCU.

  Alpharetta, Ga.-based Surgical Information Systems outlined five things ASCs can do to improve billing performance on their blog.

  Westchester, Ill.-based Regent Surgical Health outlined three elements essential to establishing a bundled payment program in ASCs on their blog.

Dayton, Ohio-based Vernon Glaser & Associates Owner and Operator Vernon Frederick Glaser II pleaded guilty to one count of failing to pay employment taxes and agreed to pay the IRS about $512,462 in restitution, WKEF/WRGT reports.

Four Modesto, Calif.-based Stanislaus Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine physicians are awaiting pretrial hearings for allegedly participating in a $40 million fraudulent billing and kickback scheme, The Modesto Bee reports.

The husband of a Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group executive will pay the Securities and Exchange Commission nearly $140,000 to settle accusations he eavesdropped on his wife's calls and used the information to engage in insider trading, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business…

As healthcare costs continue to grow, value-based initiatives like bundled payments are here to stay and are increasingly moving to the ASC setting.

Port Angeles, Wash.-based Olympic Medical Center decided to join the American Hospital Association's lawsuit against HHS over Medicare reimbursement cuts for off-site clinics, the Peninsula Daily News reports.

The American Association of Clinical Urologists lauded the proposed 2019 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and ASC Payment System, Urology Times reports.