ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

The American Hospital Association is taking its stand on Medicare's value-based reimbursement programs, saying they "do not have effective and fair financial incentives that promote performance improvement," in a statement made to the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, RevCycle…

Katharine Wade, the commissioner of Connecticut's Insurance Department, failed to provide financial information to the court in advance of Anthem's proposed acquisition, The Connecticut Mirror reports. 

The American Medical Association and Medical Society of the State of New York stood before the New York State Department of Financial Services to ask state regulators to reject the Anthem-Cigna merger, according to DotMed.

Former U.S. Representative Ellen Tauscher believes increasing competition between the public and private sector could spur the change needed to save the ACA, according to a column in The Hill.

A group of senators sent a letter to Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini asking for an explanation as to why the payer exited many Affordable Care Act exchanges, according to The Huffington Post.

Presidential candidate Donald Trump has a plan for Medicaid, and an Urban Institute analysis debates its effectiveness, according to Forbes. 

A Medicare proposal that would have surgeons code their day's work in 10 minute segments "during global surgical packages" is widely disliked, Medscape reports.

Residents of Pinal County, Ariz., who obtain health insurance on the "ObamaCare" marketplace will have a single insurer to pick from after Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona entered back into the marketplace, The Arizona Republic reports. Here's what you…

In a recent article, Thomas Pinelli of AmkaiSolutions reviews recent trends in ASC technology.

Cigna will not be signing up new customers during fall enrollment for its private Medicare plans following a CMS investigation which identified "widespread and systemic failures" in the payer's Medicare business, according to Bloomberg.