ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

HHS data shows premium hikes will impact nearly 8.4 million Americans, despite President Barack Obama saying only a "handful of people" will feel the hikes' impact, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The generation the government needs most to bring down ACA related costs is the generation that's staying far, far away, lobbyist Andrew Clark argues in a Newsweek column.

Cigna's third quarter profits took a beating as the insurer posted a 16.6 percent drop in net profits and a 10.9 percent slide for the last nine months, Journal Inquirer reports.

Medicare will begin paying for a strategy aimed at preventing those Americans at high-risk of diabetes from developing the disease, according to The Washington Post.

CMS cut the reporting period for physicians involved in the meaningful use EHR inventive program from a full year to 90 days as part of its outpatient prospective payment system final rule, according to Medscape.

CMS released the final 2017 ASC payment rule with plans to increase payment rates next year, and ASCA outlined the key components for ASCs.

Indianapolis-based Anthem failed to meet its third quarter earnings projections, Nasdaq reports.

Indianapolis-based insurer Anthem said it may pull back from the exchanges in 2018 if results don't improve, Bloomberg reports.

Minnesotans looking to enroll into MNsure, their state's health insurance exchange, couldn't as a telephone attack took the exchange offline for several hours during the first day of enrollment, the Woodbury Bulletin reports.

Under the ACA, payer consolidation is on the rise — as evidenced by the Aetna-Humana merger earlier this year — as are high-deductible health plans. A group of ASC leaders and experts discussed how these trends affect surgery centers during…