ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Medical cost growth is expected to increase 7.5 percent for 2013, the fourth straight year of relatively flat growth compared to inflation, according to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute (pdf).

AAPC has announced the CCPM (Certified Physician Practice Manager) credential, according to a release.

Representatives from the American Medical Association and Medical Group Management Association sent letters to House Ways and Means Committee chairs Dave Camp (R-Mich.) and Wally Herger (R-Calif.) to suggest alternatives to the current Medicare sustainable growth rate, according to a…

There are benefits and drawbacks to every decision ASC administrators make, including the decision about whether to outsource billing and collections. Here, industry experts discuss the pros and of outsourcing revenue cycle management.

Massachusetts' largest business groups, which allied to promote the passage of the 2006 law that expanded health insurance coverage, are now divided over how the state should go about reducing healthcare costs, according to a Boston Globe report.

The healthcare reform law contains a provision requiring all Medicare providers' payment updates, including surgery centers', to be reduced by a productivity adjustment. Last year, the payment update for ASCs was reduced by 1.1 percent, compared to 1 percent for…

Jeffrey Shanton, chair of the Advocacy & Legislative Affairs Committee for the New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers, recently expressed concern about the lack of outrage over Aetna's recent out-of-network policy changes.

A New York bill would force insurance companies to reveal their out-of-network reimbursement policies and prohibit approval of health plans that do not include coverage of out-of-network medical services, according to a Daily Bedford report.

Here are the top payors as reported by physicians in the Medscape Insurer Ratings Report 2011, by dollars collected and patient visits.

With just a week to go, about 12 percent of Connecticut state employees have not yet complied with a rule requiring participation in a cost-savings healthcare program, according to a CBS News report.