ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Governors from a number of states have named March 26 National Medical Biller's Day.

The Hawaii state Attorney General's Office is appealing a prior decision to resume Medicaid reimbursements for Frederick Nitta, MD, an obstetrician and gynecologist accused of fraudulent billing.

This morning, the Texas Senate Business and Commerce committee, while hearing a bill to differentiate freestanding emergency medical facilities and ER Rooms, discussed the issue of "surprise medical billing," according to KXAN.

The Emergency Services and Surprise Bills law will go into effect in New York on March 31, according to a Buffalo Business First report.

United Healthcare has brought an element of price transparency to its Health4Me smartphone app, according to a report by The Post and Courier.

While the United States is gearing up for the switch to ICD-10 in October, the World Health Organization is preparing for ICD-11, according to an EHR Intelligence report.

HHS has recovered $3.3 billion in fraudulent healthcare billing for the fiscal year 2014, according to a HealthcareDIVE report.

The disparity in healthcare pricing from city to city and even within the same market is no secret. The push for transparency has been gaining steam across the country and just how disparate those costs can be continues to come…

Washington State wants to strictly regulate third-party vendors who issue medical liens and to require providers to tell patients upfront that they use liens as part of their billing practices, reports The Bellingham Herald.

CMS will hold a third end-to-end ICD-10 testing week July 20 to July 24.