ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

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.

With slim margins and high levels of competition, a healthy revenue cycle is essential to ASC success. What revenue cycle metrics and data points do ASC leaders need to track on a regular basis to maintain effective RCM processes?

Hillary Clinton proposed a plan to lower out-of-pocket healthcare costs for Americans, according to U.S. News & World Report.

Pricing Healthcare, a price transparency platform, has added new price listings for four ASCs.

A recent survey found healthcare practices continue to be fearful of ICD-10 reimbursement denials, according to RevCycle Intelligence.

Out-of-network operations have formed a significant component of the business of ambulatory surgery centers for many years. Some providers operate on an exclusively out-of-network basis. Others use OON strategies to leverage their dealings with insurers. Some facilities have a mix…