ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

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.

In a session at the Becker’s Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 18, Ken Perez, senior vice president of marketing and director of healthcare policy at MedeAnalytics, discussed key developments in Medicare reimbursement and strategies to deal with…

In a session at the Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 18, Rebecca Black, vice president of revenue cycle at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta, discussed how electronic medical records could be best utilized within a hospital's…

More self-insured employers are considering direct contracting with physicians, as healthcare experiences continued upheaval due to reform and increases in the cost of coverage, according to an American Medical News report.

In comments to CMS, the ASC Association urged the agency to abandon its policy of counting patient encounters in an ASC towards the determination of whether a physician has met the requirement of utilizing a certified EHR in at least…

Here are 29 statistics on surgery center A/R, based on data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011.