ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

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.

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).