ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Health insurance costs vary from state to state, and some states are much higher than others, according to a Huffington Post report.

The Association of Home Care Coding & Compliance and the Home Health and Hospice ICD-10 Transition Workgroup are collaborating with the American Hospital Association's Coding Clinic to smooth over confusion about coding.

Hawaii Medical Service Association, the state's largest healthcare payer, implemented a policy mandating physicians to undergo a pre-approval process for imaging services before they order tests, which incited opposition from physicians, according to KITV News.

The House panel OK’d a bill promising greater transparency for hospital pricing, according to Florida Politics.

Federal officials reported more than 580,000 Georgia residents obtained health insurance coverage during the third open enrollment period, according to savannahnow.com.

The regulation of health insurance is beginning to shift toward the Department of Managed Health Care, according to California Healthline.

CareSource, the second company in West Virginia to offer health insurance plans on the state's marketplace created in the ACA, is deeming the first year of enrollment successful, according to MetroNews.

New Affordable Care Act regulations are causing complications for small business owners filing income taxes, according to StarTribune.

The Obama administration said nearly 12.7 million people signed up for health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act or had their coverage automatically renewed in the open enrollment season, according to The New York Times.

The New England Employee Benefits Council, hosted a forum, where various leading health insurance companies met to share their outlooks for 2016, according to Boston Globe.