ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission may eliminate payment updates for ambulatory surgery centers next year, according to an ASCA report.

Here are 54 key points about the major U.S. insurers — Aetna, Anthem, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Humana, Kaiser Permanente and UnitedHealth Group.

Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna reported its fourth quarter and full-year financial results.

Aspirus and WPS Health Solutions are partnering to launch a new health insurance company, according to Milwaukee- Wisconsin Journal Sentinel.

Patients must pay a minimum of $1 a month for their healthcare if they wish to be a member of the Healthy Indiana Program, according to IndyStar.

More than 575,000 North Carolina residents enrolled or re-enrolled in healthcare coverage since open enrollment started, according to WRAL.com.

Some Medicare recipients don’t have the money for their share of medical bills and follow-up drugs and can’t buy supplemental insurance to help cover the costs, according to TIME.

With the implementation of ICD-10, the number of diagnostic codes increased from 13,000 ICD-9 codes to 68,000 ICD-10 codes. The influx of codes brought a lot of apprehension, and many providers were concerned ICD-10 would cause major delays. Nearly five…

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee may be forced to raise premiums as it suffers huge losses on its ACA health exchange plans, according to timesfreepress.com.

The Alaska Division of Insurance is kicking Portland-based Moda Health out of Alaska's individual marketplace, leaving Alaskans with only one option for healthcare coverage, according to Alaska Dispatch News.