ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Here are 50 new benchmarks on payor mix as a percent of gross charges in surgery centers, based on data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011.

Government officials are teaming up with insurance executives to weed out fraudulent insurance claims for both government and private health plans, according to the Associated Press.

Healthcare coding software company Health Language announced it's partnering with NextGen Healthcare, an information systems connectivity provider, to enhance billing workflow for physicians, according to a Market Watch report.

G. Keith Smith, an anesthesiologist and chief medical director at the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, has been vocal about his belief in price transparency in ASCs, according to a Fierce Health Finance report.

Medical billing and software company CareCloud has announced it will team up with Nashville, Tenn.-based Doctors Access, a practice management software company, to create a dynamic new physician management program, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Here are 10 statistics on payor reimbursement as a percent of Medicare, based on Medscape's Insurer Ratings Report 2011. In this survey, physicians reported what percentage of Medicare their best payor reimbursed. The statistics can vary based on location and…

Physician practices may miss out on reimbursement through simple mistakes, according to an AAPC report written by Jackie Stack, CPC, CPC-I, CEMC, CFPC, CIMC, CPEDC.

Tenet Healthcare Corporation has announced it has signed a new multi-year agreement with Cigna, under which Cigna customers will have access to healthcare services at all hospitals owned and operated by Tenet subsidiaries, according to a Market Watch report.

Despite acknowledging that the hospital market basket would be a more appropriate system on which to base surgery center payment updates, CMS continues to base updates on the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, according to an ASCA report.

Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, both Massachusetts-based insurers, are jumping at the chance to reach more than 30 million Americans who now need coverage, as per the Supreme Court's ruling last month, according to the Boston Globe.