ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

New York's Medicaid program has saved billions of dollars in its recent redesign, and now the state is asking the federal government to keep those savings to reinvest in Medicaid, according to a Times Union report.

Here are 20 issues dealing with Medicare or Medicaid that occurred in the past two weeks, starting with the most recent.

The New York Senate yesterday approved legislation to reduce costly and unexpected medical charges to health insurance consumers, according to a NewsLI report. The bill, S7745, establishes protections and ensures consumers have adequate access to necessary services.

The National Health Insurer Report Card released data on Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Health Care Service Corporation, Humana, Regence, UnitedHealthcare and Medicare. The data was gathered from 380 physician practices between February and March 2012.

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Approximately 46.3 million people in the United States do not have health insurance, a trend that has risen steadily over the past 15 years, according to the 2011 National Health Interview Survey and a FOX News report.

United Healthcare Services has sued Saratoga-based Bay Area Surgical Management and its five surgery centers, claiming the company submitted inflated and fraudulent bills, according to a San Jose Mercury News report.

At the 10th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 15, 2012, Bill Gilbert, vice president of marketing for AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions, explained how process improvement techniques — better known as Lean processes — can…

At the 10th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 16, Catherine Meredith, vice president of finance for the Ambulatory Surgery Centers of America, discussed ways to optimize a surgery center's revenue cycle.

At the 10th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 16, Stephanie Ellis, RN, CPC, with Ellis Medical Consulting, discussed 15 current procedure terminology coding issues for orthopedic and spine ambulatory surgery center facilities.