ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Covered California, the state's health exchange, raised prices by 13.2 percent for consumers, according to The Hill.

ASCs can drive significantly lower implant prices with the support and involvement of their surgeons. Even a few key words of surgeon support invoked at the right time can mean many thousands of dollars in savings. But effectively getting surgeon…

Justice Department antitrust officials are likely to file lawsuits to stop the pending Anthem/Cigna and Aetna/Humana mega-mergers, according to sources familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reports.

During the second quarter, UnitedHealth had a 28 percent increase in profits, growing by $10.2 billion compared to the second period last year, according to The Hill.

A new Kaiser Family Foundation study provides a snapshot of Medicare beneficiaries who died at some point in 2014 and spending at the end of life.

In a recent brief interview in Iowa, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell addressed why the healthcare industry needs competition to lower the financial impact on patients, according to Bloomberg.

Millennials are more likely drawn toward non-traditional ways of paying medical expenses, according to the 2016 Aflac WorkForce Report, reported in Compensation BLR.

Many healthcare advocates have continually argued making patients more responsible for their healthcare dollars will lower over-utilization of services, according to Huffington Post.

With the shift to pay-for-performance rapidly approaching, ambulatory surgery centers and physician-owned facilities need to be at the top of their game to ensure they are not losing revenue.

This week, the House Appropriations Committee approved a health and labor spending bill totaling $161 billion, according to The Hill.