ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Insurance company Oscar Health entered into a partnership with the Cleveland Clinic to offer co-branded individual insurance plans in northeast Ohio.

The number of Medicare-certified ASCs varies throughout the United States. States with certificate-of-need laws have 1.6 ASCs per 100,000 people on average, slightly less than states without a CON law (1.8), according to the VMG Health 2017 Intellimarker: Multi-Specialty ASC…

The American Medical Association criticized the proposed Medicaid spending caps Republican senators are incorporating into the American Health Care Act, Forbes reports.

Manatt Health believes Montana's Medicaid program could lose $4.8 billion in federal funding by 2026 if the American Health Care Act becomes law.

CMS analysts issued a report saying 13 million Americans will lose coverage by 2026 if the president signs the U.S. House's version of the American Health Care Act into law, Medscape reports.

The FBI is investigating Zoom Health Plans over allegations the payer retroactively filed false medical claims to avoid having to pay $3 million into an ACA program, the Portland Business Journal reports.

Despite many leading payers withdrawing their ACA presence, Centene plans to bolster its offerings in several state exchanges, according to The New York Times.

InstaMed released its 2016 Trends in Healthcare Payment Annual Report, outlining the key concepts for healthcare payments in the coming year.

The number of people insured through the ACA fell by approximately 2 million from Jan. 31 through mid-March, Politico reports.

After several payers withdrew from Arizona's ACA exchange in 2017, the two remaining payers elected to continue offering coverage into next year, AZcentral reports.