ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Nearly all providers still rely on paper-based medical billing and patient collections, according to a HIMSS Analytics and Waystar survey of 900 healthcare financial executives.

Denials and poor follow-up processes. Charge entry errors. Accounts receivable (A/R) days well above industry standards. High self-pay balances. Failure to negotiate or load payor contracts. Incomplete operative notes.

Greater site neutrality would reduce hospitals' incentives to acquire physician practices and in turn help private insurers secure better prices, according to an analysis from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy.

Medical Transcription Billing Co. will pay series A cumulative redeemable perpetual preferred stock holders a monthly cash dividend of $0.22 per share.

CMS will terminate its Medicare provider agreement with Oklahoma City-based ESEC Surgery Center at 12:01 a.m. Aug. 18.

Medical Transcription Billing Corp. reported strong revenue growth and record profitability in the second quarter of 2018.

Short-staffed in IT and the business office, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and other providers often seek ways to increase profitability without disrupting workflow or adding resource hours. Part one of this revenue cycle management (RCM) series focused on pre-registration, medical…

U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield sentenced Mustak Y. Vaid, MD, to 18 months in prison for participating in a $30 million scheme to defraud Medicare and the New York State Medicaid program.

CMS and the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics released changes to the ICD-10-CM guidelines for fiscal year 2019.

North Dakota has the highest physician Medicare-acceptance rate, while Hawaii has the lowest, according to WalletHub.