ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Here are statistics on Medicare and Medicaid cases at ASCs based on the VMG Health Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2017.

HHS Secretary Alex Azar assured providers value-based efforts would both continue and likely be accelerated in the coming months in a recent speech, Home Health Care News reports.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman penalized EmblemHealth with a $575,000 fine after thousands of social security numbers were disclosed in a mailing, the Cheektowaga Chronicle reports. Here are six insights.

The ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee is discussing proposals for procedure and diagnosis code topics March 6 and 7 at the CMS Auditorium in Baltimore. Here are eight things to know about the committee meeting and how to submit input.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina reported a 2017 net income margin of $0.078 for every dollar of revenue, but its average net income margin from 2013 to 2017 was below target. Here are five takeaways.

A Fairhope, Ala.-based pain management physician who pled guilty to healthcare fraud and unlawful distribution of a controlled substance will be asked to pay over $14.7 million in restitution to the companies he defrauded, AL.com reports.

There is justifiably a lot of excitement regarding the launch of Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI Advanced).

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield won't proceed with a policy that would have slashed reimbursement rates for evaluation and management services billed with modifier 25 by 50 percent. Here are four insights.

Medicaid providers repaid 9.6 percent of the $19.7 million owed to the state as of November 2017, according to a report by Ohio Auditor Dave Yost. Here are four insights.

In late 2017, Atlanta-based Navicure bought Louisville, Ky.-based claims management firm ZirMed for a reported $750 million. Matt Hawkins, the newly named CEO of the combined company Waystar hopes to make new hires in the coming years, WDRB.com reports.