ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

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.

Change is never-ending for ambulatory surgery centers (ACSs). ASCs need to always stay on top of the seemingly nonstop influx of contractual and coding changes, which can have a direct impact on cash flow.

Madison-based University of Wisconsin Health selected the Oracle Cloud resource planning system for its seven hospitals and 87 outpatient clinics.

Patrick DeAngelo joined Modernizing Medicine as its senior vice president and general manager of business services.