ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

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.

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.