ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

The Physician Payments Sunshine Act was finalized in 2013. The UC San Diego School of Medicine recently conducted a study of the Open Payments database to determine which physician specialties received the highest amount of consulting fees, gifts, speaking fees,…

There is a new ambulatory fee schedule for the New York State Workers' Compensation cases, according to a Business Insurance report.

An inmate at a Minnesota prison has been charged with medical billing fraud, according to a Fox 9 report.

A new study published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings compared payments among different specialties and identified which ones topped the list.

Next year, reimbursement for ophthalmology CPT codes is expected to take a hit and could shape the specialty’s future, according to a Medscape report.

A recent Wall Street Journal analysis found Medicare patients pay more out-of-pocket costs at critical access hospitals than other larger institutions, according to Fierce Health Finance.

  Healthcare startup, Picwell, raised $3 million as interest in health insurance decision support, according to MedCity News.

Insurance companies could face penalty payments for not correcting physician directories, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

Health insurers may face pricey fines for not correcting their physician directories, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Experienced medical coder Kristi Pollard offered a few words of wisdom about a career in medical coding for next year in Government Health IT.