ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

A billing error has come to light for several 2009 procedures at the University of Toledo Medical Center in Ohio, according to the Toledo Blade.

Here are seven simple ways to prepare your ambulatory surgery center and staff for the ICD-10 switch in 2014.

More ambulatory surgery centers are looking to partner or be acquired by hospitals, as payor reimbursements ratchet down and out-of-network becomes an increasingly infeasible strategy, according to an NJBiz report.

Four office workers at a Buena Park (Calif.) surgery center were sentenced Thursday to prison terms on tax-evasion convictions and ordered to pay millions in restitution, according to an Orange County Register report.

The Government Accountability Office released statistics on how the Medicaid electronic health record incentive payments were distributed in 2011, with the average hospital payment at about $600,000, according to Healthcare Finance News.

To avoid the expected 40 percent drop in productivity after the ICD-10 implementation, coders should take note of several important measures of time and cash flow and establish their normal amount of time to code a claim, according to Phys…

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act required rules be crafted and adopted for healthcare electronic funds transfers and electronic remittance advice transactions, and providers will need to be compliant by Jan. 1, 2014, according to Finextra.

Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding, Calif., has stopped billing Medicare for kwashiorkor, a rare nutritional disorder usually affecting famished children, according to California Watch.

The Surgery Center of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City is making headlines with a unique approach to surgery center billing — an entirely "cash only," free market policy that guarantees rates for procedures, according to an Oklahoma Watchdog report.

CareCloud has appointed John Walsh as its chief technology officer.