ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare reached a statewide agreement with Cigna Healthcare of Arizona, ensuring its clinicians remain in network.

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare's Memphis, Tenn.-based facilities will no longer be in network for Cigna customers if the companies don't come to an agreement on contract terms, Memphis Commercial Appeal reports.

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.