The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission advised Congress to cut hospital reimbursement rates for procedures that can be performed more cheaply in a physician's office in order to stave off the upward trend in hospital-employed physicians and inflating Medicare and private…
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
Paying physicians for their performance on quality and patient outcomes has become popular as the industry attempts to bend the cost curve and improve patient outcomes. But, just because pay-for-performance is widespread does not mean the concept is wholly agreed…
The Government Accountability Office released two reports evaluating the rollout of the healthcare reform law's health insurance exchanges at state and federal levels, finding CMS is behind schedule for some of the 34 federally facilitated exchanges it must set up…
Improving your surgery centers' business operations and knowledge of payer contracts will help toward increasing income and preventing abusive payment tactics, according to an AAPC report.
Two recent reports show more experts have cosigned on past studies that suggested a multiyear trend in record-low U.S. healthcare spending growth may not be a temporary fluke, and may realize still greater savings in the future.
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Oregon's House of Representatives has revived a measure that will prevent abusive payment practices to ASCs by Regence BlueCross BlueShield, according to The Lund Report.
While speaking at the HIMSS Media ICD-10 Forum in National Harbor, Md., National Coordinator for Healthcare IT Farzad Mostashari, MD, reiterated that the ICD-10 implementation deadline is here to stay, according to Government Health IT.
At the 11th Annual Spine, Orthopedic & Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 14, John Bartos, JD, CEO of Collect Rx, shared his advice for providers to maximize reimbursement from out-of-network payer relationships.
Salt Lake City-based 3M Health Information Systems has launched a computer-assisted coding program for small and rural hospitals.
This article is written by Matt Kilton, Principal and Chief Operating Officer, Eveia Health Consulting & Management.You've succeeded in recruiting new surgeons to your existing surgery center, or are developing a new facility, and now you're ready to open and…