ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Sens. Dean Heller, R-Nev., Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., want to undo Medicaid expansion and eliminate federal funding over a seven year period, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.

A recent STAT poll found providers are handling more prior authorization requests in 2017, according to an American Academy of Family Physicians release.

HHS Secretary Tom Price, MD, and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, contradicted the Office of Management and Budget on President Donald Trump's proposed budget and associated cuts to Medicaid, The Hill reports.

The Rural Health Project released its report "Medicaid in Small Towns and Rural America," documenting medical utilization rates throughout America.

A study commissioned by Quest Diagnostics and Inovalon found many physicians lack the tools necessary to support value-based care and EHRs are not giving physicians the data they need.

Anthem will stop offering policies through Ohio's ACA exchanges in 2018, The New York Times reports.

Premier Health and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Ohio have partnered to offer value-based care in Miami Valley, Ohio.

As the deadline for payers to enroll into the ACA approaches, The Hill reports that these five places will be most impacted by payers leaving the ACA.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that any payer leaving the state's health insurance exchange would be barred from participating in the state's Medicaid program, New York Upstate reports.

Many Americans support the government providing funds to Medicaid expansion states, a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll found.