ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Healthcare organizations continue to see decreased patient satisfaction over a lack of price transparency and patient engagement from health payers and their employees, healthpayerintelligence.com reports. 

While news reports tend to focus on cyberattacks directed at large organizations, cybercriminals are not only targeting big players — and thinking your ASC is automatically safe because of its size could get you into big legal and financial trouble.

The Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly will be updated for the first time in a decade under a proposal the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced on Thursday, McKnight's reports. 

Many leading organizations have starkly opposed CMS' Medicare Part B payment proposal, which will change the way the government reimburses physicians for certain drugs, according to The Hill.

Healthcare is seemingly trending toward hospital employment, but independent physicians provide a slew of benefits to the healthcare system.

The next Affordable Care Act enrollment period commences one week before Election Day in November, and will reveal the health of the program following major payer complaints and exits, according to The Hill. The enrollment period ends one week before…

Health Affairs published a study finding vulnerable populations have less access to physicians participating in accountable care organizations than patients in affluent communities, according to Medscape Multispecialty.

Employees will pay 5 percent more, on average, next year to get health insurance, a National Business Group on Health survey found, according to The Fiscal Times.

Large employers can expect healthcare costs to rise by about 6 percent in 2017, according to Kaiser Health News.

U.S. District Judge John Bates set a Dec. 5 start date for a trial over the pending Aetna-Humana merger, according to Crain's Chicago Business.