ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based Mnet Financial and Amblitel have joined forces to offer a remote billing solution for ambulatory surgery centers.

A recently-enacted Arkansas law calls for certain Medicaid procedures performed in ambulatory surgery centers to be reimbursed at 80 percent of the Medicare rate paid for the same procedure at a hospital outpatient department.

Medical coders, physicians and other healthcare practice members are invited by CMS to register for an MLN Connects national provider call on ICD-10 basics that will take place Thursday, Aug. 22 at 1:30 p.m.

  This article is sponsored by American National Medical Management. Greg Maldonado, President of American National Medical Management, discusses how ambulatory surgery center administrators can use the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to maximize reimbursement based on the…

New York-based CodeSmart has partnered with eDocSecure to market its ICD-10 solutions to West Coast physician practices and health systems.

The market value for outsourced healthcare information technology, for purposes such as billing and revenue cycle management, will grow from $35 billion in 2013 to $50.4 billion in 2018, according to a Markets and Markets report.

  The American Medical Association has criticized the Medicare 2014 proposed physician fee schedule, which lowers pay for indicated services performed in the ambulatory surgery center or hospital outpatient department, according to a Kaiser Health News report.

Workers' Compensation claims are exempt from HIPAA and therefore not required to switch to the ICD-10 code set; however, practices may find it more practical to fully adopt the new codes rather than maintaining separate systems, according to a Claims…

  The number of physicians paying medical malpractice fees has fallen to the lowest number on record, according to a report from Public Citizen.

CMS is considering its policy for disclosing the data after a federal judge lifted a 1979 injunction that barred the release of individual physicians' annual Medicare payments. That court decision stems from a January 2011 request from Dow Jones, publisher…