Medicare reported paying $3.4 billion to ambulatory surgery centers in 2011 — the most recent data available — according to the 2013 MedPAC report.
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
The American Medical Association's House of Delegates convened last week and passed a policy that calls for a two-year implementation period for ICD-10 or ICD-11, according to a Government Health IT report.
eClinicalWorks, an ambulatory healthcare IT solution, announced it signed 1,000 providers to its Revenue Cycle Management service during the first six months of the year and projects $100 million in revenues by 2015.
CMS recently released guidance on how ICD-10 will impact clinical documentation.
CODESMART, a subsidiary of New York-based CodeSmart Holdings, has been named a choice supplier for ICD-10 consulting and education by Amerinet, a company that manages hundreds of healthcare facilities nationwide.
Advertisement
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…
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.