ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

OhioHealth notified patients it will drop an Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicare plan from its network, effective Jan. 1, 2019, over a contractual issue, The Columbus Dispatch reports.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia and Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia reached a new multi-year agreement with Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America, the payer announced Oct. 4. 

The Alliance for Site Neutral Payment Reform commended CMS for expanding site neutral payment policy through the 2019 Outpatient Prospective Payment System and ASC proposed rule.

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.