ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Here are four legislative updates for ASC leaders to note from May and June.

Iowa officials instated a new Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice that informs patients whether they are considered outpatient once they leave the hospitals' doors, according to Mitchell County Press News.

An Advisory Board report predicts Medicaid is going to look and function in a drastically different way under the American Health Care Act than it did under the ACA.

Montana Health Co-Op CEO Jerry Dworak believes the American Health Care Act is going to erode healthcare in Montana and "hurt" people across the country, MTPR reports.

In 2017, almost 500 clinicians, including nearly 250,000 physicians, will face a 2 percent reduction in Medicare payments because they failed to meet Physician Quality Reporting System requirements in 2015, according to Medscape.

The number of Medicare-certified ASCs has increased substantially from 2000 to 2016, with growth slowing in recent years, according to VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Study Intellimarker 2017.

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Nemours Children's Health System President and CEO David Bailey, MD, argued that value-based care on its own will not reduce healthcare spending or improve patient outcomes in a column for theHarvard Business Review.

The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services is making a series of cuts next year, according to Peninsula Clarion.

Healthcare analytics company Innovaccer launched its Healthcare Model Evaluator to help providers quantify potential savings under value-based reimbursement models.

President Donald Trump appointed several former payer lobbyists and attorneys to senior positions within HHS, The Intercept reports.