ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

A federal judge in Texas blocked United Healthcare and Next Health from escaping a suit claiming Next Health ran a $100 million kickback scheme, according to Law360.

Healthcare organizations announced a record-breaking 115 merger and acquisition transactions in 2017, and that number will likely be matched or surpassed this year, RevCycle Intelligence reports.

Medtronic entered into a value-based partnership with Revo Health with an undisclosed investment, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal reports.

ASCs saved the Medicare program and its beneficiaries $7.5 billion in a four-year period without diminishing services or quality, Advancing Surgical Care reports.

The Alabama Workers' Compensation Division published updates to its ASC fee schedule.

In-network ASCs should clearly document and communicate contract terms with payers so both parties understand their obligations to each other, according to Mnet Health Services CEO David Hamilton.

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, R, is reinstating Kentucky Medicaid beneficiaries' vision and dental benefits after cutting the incentives in July, ABC News reports.

The three biggest fraud cases involving ASCs so far this year amounted to $29,180,000 altogether.

A Quest Diagnostics study suggests value-based care implementation has slowed to a stop.

A coding audit is critical to helping ensure ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) receive appropriate payment for services provided to patients. This process, which is a review of codes submitted to payers and the comparison of those codes against what is…