ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Four joint replacement surgeons from three separate private orthopedic practices in Greensboro, N.C. are handling bundled payments in a different way, by managing it all themselves.

Medicare ACOs and participating physicians would benefit from assuming more financial risk under the new Medicare payment system, according to an Avalere report.

Here are 30 statistics on ASC payer mix as a percent of overall ASC collections, according to VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2017.

A new Gallup report shows the percentage of uninsured Americans increased 1.3 percentage points over 2017. The results are based on 25,000 interviews conducted with adults from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 2017.

As states continue to burn through their Children's Health Insurance Program reserve funding, U.S. legislators said a funding bill could be passed as soon as next week, The Hill reports.

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.