ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

New Jersey is the second U.S. state to implement a statewide individual mandate pertaining to health insurance, Politico reports.

Patient education and outreach hasn't kept pace with healthcare spending, which is projected to reach $608 billion in out-of-pocket costs by 2019, according to InstaMed's Trends in Healthcare Payments Eighth Annual Report: 2017.

WellCare Health Plans agreed to acquire Meridian Health Plan of Michigan and Illinois, as well as pharmacy benefit manager MeridianRx, for $2.5 billion in cash.

Cigna settled a lawsuit accusing three centers of violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, according to Law 360.

Two Value Health portfolio companies, Healthcare Re and Muve Health, partnered to implement the nation's first reinsurance policy for an at-risk prospective bundle.

CMS released ICD-10-PCS updates for hospital inpatient coding professionals to use for discharges from Oct. 1, 2018 through Sept. 30, 2019.

Consumers are now paying for a greater percentage of their healthcare bills. The average annual out-of-pocket costs per patient rose almost 230 percent between 2006 and 2015, according to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.1 In addition, more employers…

The U.S. government pays $685 billion to subsidize health insurance annually, Bloomberg reports.

Anthem will acquire Aspire Health, a palliative care provider.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association believes its Blue Distinction Total Care program is performing 96 percent better than competing programs in quality and outcome-related metrics.