ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota will include Owatonna (Minn.) Hospital in its Medicare Advantage plans in 2019, Owatonna.com reports.

How ambulatory surgery centers can leverage payers into mutually beneficial contracts was among the topics of discussion during a Q&A discussion at the Becker's ASC 25th Annual Meeting: The Business and Operations of ASCs conference, which was held Oct. 18-20…

The Workers Compensation Research Institute CompScope study found New Jersey ASCs handled one-quarter of comp claims, workcompcentral.com reported.

The healthcare delivery model's shift toward value-based care from fee-for-service has raised important questions for ASC payment models.

It's important to understand why general surgery practices face denials, according to MedicalBillersandCoders.com, a consortium of medical billers and coders in the U.S.

Clinical Support Services created a value-based adherence program for health plans to stay on track with the proportion of days covered for fragile populations.

Physician practices are having trouble keeping up with increasingly complex and rapidly changing payment models, a joint study by RAND Corp. and the American Medical Association found.

Eye Centers of Florida, based in Fort Myers, plans to settle Medicare billing fraud allegations with a $525,000 payment, according to the Naples Daily News.

With payers employing a variety of tactics to minimize reimbursement, the key to successful out-of-network negotiations is persistence, according to CollectRx Executive Vice President Richa Singh.

The concept of a single-payer healthcare system, Medicare for All, is finding support in an unlikely group: the Republican Party, according to The Hill.