ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Newkirk Products, an identification card provider for payers, encountered a data breach last week, according to Healthcare Finance.

On Aug. 9, the healthcare segment increased 0.6 percent in the stock market. Stock-Callers.com analyzed the following four equities.

Medicare billing data from 2012 to 2014 revealed four of the top 10 most rapidly growing Medicare services involved new devices, based on a Wall Street Journal analysis.

JAMA Internal Medicine published a study finding states that expanded Medicaid insurance to residents below a certain income threshold appeared to be healthier than residents in states that did not expand Medicaid, according to The New York Times.

Many Connecticut brokers are claiming they will leave the Affordable Care Act state exchange if the state's two carriers – Anthem and ConnectiCare – get rid of broker commission next year, according to the ct mirror.

A 2016 HealthLeaders Media Value-Based Readiness Survey found 94 percent of respondents are on a path for some form of value-based care.

Despite two states making gains in healthcare price-transparency, 43 states once again received failing grades on the Report Card on State Price Transparency Laws, according to HealthLeaders Media News.

Healthcare is shifting to value-based care and CMS is paying practices on their ability to meet certain quality measures under Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015.

U.S. District Judge John D. Bates of the District of Columbia ordered the Anthem-Cigna merger case be reassigned to another judge, according to Business Insurance.

Leading national payers have suffered big losses on the Affordable Care Act exchanges, and many payers seek consolidation as a means to thrive in the competitive insurer marketplace. However, antitrust regulators are concerned the pending payer deals will cut competition,…