ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

More patients, higher debt levels, lower reimbursements, increased competition, labor shortages — it's never been more difficult to run a hospital or health system. A Moody's Investors Services report released in April showed that median operating cash flow margins at…

Medtronic and Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealthcare partnered for a value-based program centered on improving outcomes for patients with diabetes, and initial results found the program improved outcomes and reduced hospital admissions, HIT Consultant reports.

It wasn't long ago when patient collections were viewed as a minor concern in ASCs. After all, reimbursement was strong, and what patients owed for their care was relatively low. No one wanted to leave a $50 co-pay and $250…

  Cliffside Park, N.J.-based Surgery Center of Cliffside alleges Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey underpaid the center for a lesion procedure by $58,120.40, court documents show.

Sanjoy Banerjee, MD, a physician accused of workers compensation fraud and perjury in California, pled not guilty earlier this week, according to The Press Enterprise.

As commercial payers and CMS increasingly tie payments to performance, healthcare executives are less worried about value-based contracts than they were two years ago, a KPMG poll reported by HealthLeaders found.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, R, signed a contract with CMS to remove federal restrictions concerning the state's all-payer healthcare plan, WTOP reports.

CMS will not make $10.4 billion in payments that were due to insurers under the ACA. 

AdvancedMD acquired Nuesoft Technologies, or "NueMD".

Insurance giant Allstate has filed 81 fraud lawsuits in New York since 2003, and the company recently filed another suit against 13 new corporations in an attempt to cover $2 million in damages from the no-fault healthcare firms and their…