ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

United Health Care recently dropped around 100 physicians from Rhode Island from Medicare Advantage plans, including physician groups that utilize ambulatory surgery centers.

At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 25, Eveia Health Consulting & Management COO and Principal Matt Kilton and Senior Associate Rob Quinton outlined key steps providers should take when negotiating managed care contracts.

Healthcare information technology company CareCloud has appointed Kevin Brown as its new vice president of west coast sales.

At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Bob Herman, a Becker's Healthcare financial editor, moderated a panel discussion on bundled payment models for ASCs with Naya Kehayes, MPH, managing principal and CEO, Eveia Health Consulting and Management,…

CMS may reconsider its decision not to conduct ICD-10 end-to-end testing with physician offices, according to a Medpage Today report.

Physicians should take special note of a few code changes as they are preparing for ICD-10, according to AAPC.

Providers must be prepared in a number of different areas when transitioning to ICD-10, according to a whitepaper released by SourceMedical, a provider of therapy software and ambulatory surgery center software solutions and billing services.  

Practices focusing too heavily on the payment side of ICD-10 could be missing the larger point — that the code set's increased data collection will help better mange chronic diseases and care for patients, according to an EHR Intelligence report.

The upcoming year of healthcare reform implementation signals tumultuous times for the healthcare industry and many anticipated changes stand to adversely affect ASCs' revenue cycle reimbursements.

Here are the top 10 billed ophthalmology procedures with the highest denial rates according to a report from RemitDATA.