ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina recently launched a price transparency website, and the online tool highlights the lower cost of outpatient care, according to a Forbes report. 

The Indiana Hospital Association has launched MyCareINsight.org, a healthcare price transparency website, according to an INDYSTAR report.

Here are six key points on medical practice billing office management and processes, according to "What's Happening Behind the Billing Office Door," a NextGen survey.

UnitedHealth has put in place new restrictions on hysterectomies designed to promote the use of vaginal hysterectomy, according to a StarTribune report.

The Missouri House Health Insurance Committee is considering a bill that would make health insurance plan prices available at least a month prior to open enrollment, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.

A new price transparency website, Guroo.com, has launched. The online tool was built using data from Aetna, Assurant Health, Humana and United Healthcare, according to a report by The Washington Post.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released a fact sheet on ICD-10 and the impending Oct. 1 transition deadline. Here are five things to know from the fact sheet.

CMS has successfully completed the first week of end-to-end testing of new ICD-10 coding.

On Feb. 24, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published a notice of several corrections to its Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems final rule.

There has been significant effort put forth for repealing the sustainable growth rate formula, but it appears another patch is likely to be put in place before a final solution is found, according to a MEDPAGE TODAY report.