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.
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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.
Patients are often confused when it comes to submitting claims to secondary insurance policies, according to AAPC.
A recent statewide survey by the California Public Interest Research Group Education Fund in San Francisco showed large discrepancies in what hospitals charge for common elective procedures, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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California State Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones recently announced that small businesses across the state will begin saving $48 million, following a decision from three insurers to reduce pending rate hikes that would have taken effect July 1, according to an…
Julia Hashemieh, co-founder of Bay Area Surgical Management, a California surgery center chain that was recently sued by Aetna for alleged overbilling, likened the chain's out-of-network strategy to acting as the "Robin Hood" of the healthcare industry, in a Bloomberg…
Dan Rodrigues, CEO of Kareo, discusses how small surgery centers and medical practices can ease the transition to ICD-10. "ICD-10 will have a big impact on the medical reimbursement project and technology is important for that transition," says Mr. Rodrigues.…
Here are 13 issues dealing with Medicare or Medicaid that occurred in the past week, starting with the most recent.
Here are 18 statistics about the best regional payors by location, according to Medscape’s Insurer Ratings Report 2011. In all regions, Blues Plans and Aetna were ranked among the top insurers by physicians.