ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

A group of 101 economists sent a letter in support of the Cadillac Tax to Congress on Thursday, Oct. 1, according to Heartland News.

An AAPC blog post discusses the essential elements of knowing when to query providers for coding updates, especially with the ICD-10 transition.

Priority Health in Grand Rapids is rewarding patients anywhere from $50 to a couple hundred dollars if they choose a cheaper option on 300 common healthcare procedures, according to The Detroit News.

With at least 35 states authorizing copays and other medical service fees at jails, prisoners may have copayments ranging from a few dollars to $100, according to npr.

Out-of-network healthcare delivers significantly higher bills to patients, based on a new America's Health Insurance Plans study, according to CNBC.

More Americans are utilizing Direct Health Care to bypass health insurance, according to wbay.com.

In the last year, health insurance premiums have increased 4 percent to $6,251 for individual workers and $17,545 for their families, according to The Motley Fool.

The American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians is providing pain physicians a manuscript for the impending IC-10 transition. 

Members of the Iowa Executive Council are considering an approval that would allow for a two-year extension of state group insurance rates that would raise health premiums by 6.7 percent for 2016, according to The Gazette.

Merge Healthcare, provider of enterprise imaging, interoperability and clinic systems, polled 50 customers to determine how worried they were about the upcoming ICD-10 transition.