ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Minnesota Rep. Jeremy Munson, R-Lake Crystal, introduced a bill in the state legislature that would mandate hospitals and clinics to publish price information on their 25 most common procedures, the Mankato Free Press reports.

Physicians, medical groups and coding experts requested 25 diagnosis codes at the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting, March 6 and 7, along with 16 procedural codes.

A study at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management in Chicago discovered the cost of physician services climbs as healthcare providers increasingly gain market power through mergers and acquisitions.

Global 1 expanded its medical bundled payment system to include a network of more than 85 outpatient surgery centers, featuring more than 650 physicians, in California.

Pain management specialist Subramaniam Khanthan, MD, of Jersey City-based Hudson Medical is charged with 16 counts of healthcare claims fraud for billing insurance for treatments that were unnecessary or never performed, NJ.com reports.

CMS issued an update to its policy on evaluation and management documentation provided by students, allowing teaching physicians to verify student work rather than re-documenting it.

Amazon is offering Medicaid recipients a discounted subscription to the company's Amazon Prime membership, the Indy Star reports.

CMS Administrator Seema Verma made a speech at HIMSS18, March 5 to March 9 in Las Vegas, touching on several topics related to the agency and the future of healthcare.

Cigna intends to purchase Express Scripts for $54 billion, CNBC reports.

The federal government collected about $20 million in civil fraud recoveries from 2013 to 2017, with most related to False Claims Act violations, according to the Bass, Berry & Sims Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Review 2017. Here are five statistics.