ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported healthcare consumers received more than $2.4 billion in premium rebates since 2011, according to RevCycle Intelligence.

Mississippi state officials say they will cover the costs of bariatric surgery for Medicaid beneficiaries, according to Healthcare DIVE.

With the closing of co-op Health Republic, almost 200,000 New York residents' policies will expire, according to USA Today.

A New Jersey Assembly committee advanced a bill mandating physicians and hospitals to disclose in advance which of their services are not covered by a patient’s insurance network, according to the Philadelphia Business Journal.

While the number of uninsured Dane County residents has dropped by almost 40 percent in the last two years, a large number of residents still lack health insurance, according to Wisconsin State Journal.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued clarifications for the measures the agency is taking to resolve isolated errors regarding ICD-10, according to EHR Intelligence.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed a rule mandating minimum network standards for health plans sold through the federal exchange in 2017, according to California Healthline.

Health insurers owe Arkansas consumers and businesses more than $7.1 million as the payers collected too much in premiums last year than what they spent on medical care, according to the Washington Times.

UnitedHealth Group is potentially pulling out of the Affordable Care Act due to huge financial losses totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, according to Bloomberg Business.

Florida Blue, Florida's Blue Cross and Blue Shield plan, and Baptist Health South Florida, a network of seven hospitals and about 50 outpatient and urgent care facilities, collaborated to push the success of myBlue, a low cost plan serving South…