ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Throughout the United States, rates vary for physicians not accepting Medicare patients, according to Physician's Money Digest.

Although the Affordable Care Act marketplace continues to see increasing premiums and exiting payers, the Obama administration predicts monthly ACA marketplace enrollment will hit 11.4 million in 2017, according to The New York Times.

Here are two legislative changes that impact ASCs and healthcare facilities across the nation.

During last night's third presidential debate, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump discussed their plans for Medicare and healthcare reform, according to Medscape.

The Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said Medicaid expansion in South Carolina was "not a question of if, [but] a question of when," The Post and Courier reports.

Despite the Affordable Care Act providing millions of Americans coverage since 2010, there are still a great deal of uninsured Americans. Kaiser Family Foundation recently found there are 27 million uninsured Americans. Bloomberg provides a snapshot into this population and…

A Government Accountability Office report found failure to align quality measures across payers impeded providers' ability to develop quality improvements for value-based care models, according to RevCycle Intelligence.

CareCredit expanded to new locations and healthcare sectors.

Regulators in eight states approved premiums that were a percentage point or more than the increases that payers requested, according to USA Today.

Cambridge, Mass.-based Harvard Law School's Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation filed complaints with HHS' Office for Civil Rights against seven insurers in eight states for allegedly engaging in discriminatory drug coverage practices, according to Healthcare Finance.