ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Senate Health Committee Chair Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., announced his intention to resume bipartisan talks to stabilize the insurance exchange market, the Tennessean reports.

Here are the top five Becker's ASC Review stories related to salary and benefits so far in 2017.

The Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society partnered with American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, the American Society of Retinal Specialists and Society for Excellence in Eyecare to comment on the CMS proposed 2018 payment rates.

Billing is one of the most important aspects of any practice, big or small.

Parasail Health launched Parasail ProPatient, a tool designed to increase hospital patient collections by up to 400 percent, while also reducing administrative costs and patient accounts receivable days.

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, announced her opposition to the Republican ACA repeal bill, which will likely result in the bill's failure, The New York Times reports.

A study, conducted by the Los Angeles-based USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy project, believes the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill would cause 21 million Americans to lose their insurance by 2026, Vox reports.

Senate Republicans are revising their ACA repeal bill to include several provisions to appeal to various party members, according to a document Politico obtained Sept. 24.

The National Association of Medicaid Directors released a statement unanimously disapproving of the healthcare bill introduced by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., The Hill reports.

The Graham-Cassidy ACA Repeal Bill, the recently proposed ACA repeal bill, would eliminate Medicaid expansion, premium tax credits, cost sharing reductions payments as well as individual and employers mandates and the Basic Health Program.