ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Nader Samii, CEO, and Lisa Rock, president of National Medical Billing Services, discuss five core concepts for building a great billing and collections business.

The New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers is opposing A-944, a bill that would add to existing anti-fraud legislation in the state.

The New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers has sent a letter to the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance, asking them to investigate Aetna's practice of redirecting in-network patients.

A group of California physicians and medical groups has accused insurance company Aetna of reneging on medical benefits, escalating a dispute over payments for care in facilities that are out-of-network with the insurance provider, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.

CMS has released the 2013 proposed payment rule for ambulatory surgery centers and hospital outpatient departments.

Here are 10 statistics on the payors physicians have dropped over the past two years, according to Medscape's Insurer Ratings Report. Of the 10,213 physician respondents to the survey, 24 reported dropping insurers over the past two years.

In a July 28 webinar titled "ASC – PPO Out of Network Payments Are Not Dead," Kelly Webb, CEO of ASC Billing Specialist, discussed how an out-of-network reimbursement strategy can still work for surgery centers, despite payors pressuring providers to…

The following article was written by Rob Morris, vice president of marketing and new business development at CareCredit, a part of GE Capital.

CMS has concluded that the risk of bariatric surgery does not outweigh the toll morbid obesity takes on a person's health, according to a final decision memo on bariatric surgery and an AAPC report.

Cathy Weaver, senior manager at Somerset CPAs in Indianapolis, Ind., discusses five trends in Medicare reimbursement in the ambulatory surgery center setting over the past several years.