ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Jason Hwang, MD, co-founder and executive director of health care at the nonprofit think tank Innosight Institute and co-author of The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care with Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen, discusses bundled payments and…

The Medicare Payment Advisory Committee has released data that provides an overview of Medicare spending, including the recent trend of slowed growth in the number of ASCs, which continued in 2011, according to an ASCA report.

Portland, Ore.-based Legacy Health has selected Wolters Kluwer Health's ProVation Medical software for GI procedure documentation and coding at five Legacy Hospitals, according to a Market Wire report.

To figure out how to pay for reforms from its 2006 healthcare law, the Massachusetts legislature is working on a new bill to reduce healthcare spending, according to ABC News.

Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group is one of many private payors who has agreed to share information with federal regulators looking to crack down on healthcare billing fraud, according to the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal.

Kam Technologies, an anesthesia billing and technologies solution company in Augusta, Ga., recently unveiled its new cloud-based information management system, designed with ASCs in mind, according to a PR Newswire report.

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.