At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on October 26, Paul Cadorette, director of educational services at mdStrategies, discussed important changes in coding and billing over the next year.
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 26, Carolyn Neumann, CPC, senior manager of coding and coverage access for Specialty Healthcare Advisers, shared the 10 biggest reimbursement challenges facing ASCs that do minimally invasive spine…
At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 24, Kelly Webb, vice president and general manager of MediGain's ASC billing division, spoke about challenges ASCs are facing in reimbursement.
Medicare recovery audit contractor audits can be devastating for surgery centers, according to Stephanie Ellis, RN, CPC, owner and president of Ellis Medical Consulting.
Ambulatory surgery centers can lose money and face compliance issues if they don't avoid these billing issues.
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Earlier this year, Steven Brill shook the healthcare industry with his article in TIME. It put heavy pressure on hospitals and health systems to explain their procedures, but the call for price transparency is hitting the outpatient sector as well.
At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 24, Kevin McDonald, vice president of Source Medical, discussed ambulatory surgery center's preparation for the transition to ICD-10.
Medicare announced it plans to issue the CY 2014 Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems final rule on or before Nov. 27, 2014.
ChangeMed, a Dayton, Ohio-based healthcare billing service, has named Barry Hoffman as its new CEO and Steve Miller as executive vice president, according to a Dayton Business Journal report.
Fiserv launched its electronic billing and payment platform for small to mid-sized billers this week.