ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

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. 

Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services and CEO Prem Reddy, MD, will together pay $65 million to settle False Claim Act allegations against 14 Prime hospitals. 

ASCs should closely and continually examine processes for preauthorization of the patient's procedure, a crucial step in the revenue cycle process, according to Surgical Information Systems Revenue Cycle Services Director Jessica Nelson.

Five ASC leaders discuss value-based care and what their centers are doing to prepare for outcomes-based reimbursement in the future.

Global Payments purchased cloud-based ambulatory physician practice software provider AdvancedMD from Marlin Equity Partners.