ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

CBS Medical Billing & Consulting is expanding into a larger facility, according to a Seacoast Online report.

An institutional shareholder is suing Aetna for breach of fiduciary duties after the payer withdrew from 11 ACA exchanges, The Hartford Courant reports.

J.D. Power conducted a study on Managed Medicaid programs, finding approximately 74 million beneficiaries are more satisfied with their Medicaid program than with commercial payer options.

In many cases, Medicare can yield big savings when moving cases to ASCs, according to Ambulatory Surgery Center Association.

Americans want Congress to put healthcare reform to rest, at least for now, according to a Reueters/Ipsos opinion poll.

President Donald Trump tweeted that he'd eliminate insurance-based subsidies to payers and Congress if a new ACA alternative was not passed, the Reuters reports.

Republican attempts to pass a "skinny" ACA repeal bill failed on May 28 after Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, voted against it, CNN reports.

In their attempt to pass an ACA alternative, Congressional Republicans are shifting their focus from an all-out appeal to an advanced drafting process, CNN reports.

Centene Corp. announced its second quarter fiscal year 2017 earnings, headlined by a strong performance on its ACA exchange offerings, Reuters reports.

Commercial payers comprise the bulk of ASCs' payer mix, on average, according to VMG's 2017 Multi-Specialty ASC Study Intellimarker.