ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Advanced Center for Surgery Chairman Joshua Port took on UPMC during a hearing Wednesday for excluding the center from individuals covered under the UPMC Health Plan's provider network, according to the Altoona Mirror.

CMS created a new voluntary inpatient and outpatient bundled payment model, Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced. 

Payformance Solutions, a company of the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Altarum Institute, and the Michigan Association of Health Plans announced a pilot program in which Michigan's MCOs can use Payformance's TrustHub software to collaborate through strategic planning and data sharing to…

A study, published in Health Affairs, examined the relationship between Medicaid expansion and hospital closures.

Professional coders are more likely to see compensation increases when they achieve higher credentials, and the percent increase in year-over-year compensation is higher for the most-credentialed individuals, according to the AAPC 2016 Salary Survey.

The Trump administration proposed a new plan that would allow small business owners, employers, sole proprietors and self-employed individuals to group together to purchase insurance in the large group market, according to The New York Times.

CMS launched a new data submission system for physicians to submit 2017 performance data for CMS' Quality Payments Program.

Evolent Health acquired assets from New Mexico Health Connections, which will allow the companies to operate a new health plan.

Kaiser Family Foundation examined data for premiums using the lowest-cost premium for the bronze, silver and gold tiered plans in each state as well as the second lowest cost silver benchmark for patients who were 40 years old in each…

Before evaluating the effectiveness of your employees, it is important to understand who you are as a company. This is achieved by asking your leadership team a few key questions: (1) What are your core values? Do they accurately reflect…