ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

The payer marketplace endures another blow as Humana reported it will leave almost half of the Affordable Care Act's exchanges in 2017, according to The Hill.

The Justice Department's antitrust officials made a much-anticipated move by filing a suit against the pending Anthem/Cigna and Aetna/Humana mergers, according to MedPage Today.

The shift from volume to value-based healthcare models is underway. Outpatient service providers must reevaluate how to manage their revenue cycles, and do so relatively quickly.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) is rejecting an important piece of Donald Trump's healthcare plan proposal, according to The Hill.

The Commonwealth Fund found most insurance companies lost money in the first year of the Affordable Care Act health insurance exchange markets.

An International Federation of Health Plans report found U.S. leading insurers pay more than other developed countries for drugs as well as surgical procedures, according to CNBC.

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

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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.