ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare (AmSurg) is trying to repair its public image by launching a website dedicated to explaining surprise medical billing claims.

DaVita Medical Holdings will pay $270 million to resolve False Claims Act violation allegations related to inaccurate billing information that led to inflated payments from Medicare Advantage Plan beneficiaries.

ASCs struggle with timely payments even more than hospitals and hospital outpatient departments do, according to Clear Gage.

Implementing retail medicine and free market concepts is the best way to tackle healthcare inefficiencies and control costs, the Goodman Institute's John C. Goodman said in a Forbes opinion piece.

The Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society issued a statement praising CMS' recent Medicare payment policy changes.

Hospital groups, surgery centers and individuals submitted comments to CMS about its proposed changes to the hospital outpatient prospective payment system, ASC payments and the 340B drug program, AJMC reports.

Simple Admit will now offer Bankers Healthcare Group's patient financing program through Simple Pay, a patient relationship management platform designed for surgery centers, The Virginian-Pilot reports.

Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway signed a December 14, 2015 Declaratory Ruling of the North Carolina Industrial Commission order Sept. 18 affirming a reform to align workers' compensation medical costs with the national average, Workerscompensation.com reported.

It's become clear that the payment shift is not a short-term phenomenon, and patients are likely to continue being directly accountable for a significant portion of healthcare costs. One recent study projected out-of-pocket spending on healthcare expenses will surge to…

Outpatient coders achieved higher average accuracy scores for the second consecutive year in Central Learning's nationwide ICD-10 coding contest.