ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

At the 19th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 27, Doug Prochnow, partner at Edwards Wildman Palmer law firm, discussed the $3 million verdict in the landmark Chatham Surgicore v. HCSC case.

At the 19th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 26, 2012, Kevin McDonald, senior vice president of sales, Revenue Cycle Solutions Division at SourceMedical Solutions, gave a presentation about the benefits of ICD-10 and described seven steps…

Statistics are ranked by denial count, from highest to lowest. Data is based on 25 percent of all national outpatient remittances from the month of September from RemitDATA, an independent, leading source of Comparative Analytics for reimbursement, utilization and productivity…

Ambulatory surgery centers, hospitals and other providers are increasingly encountering more disputes with out-of-network payors, and knowing where those disputes stand in the court of law could give other providers a sense of what they should do if they have…

At the 19th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 26, I. Naya Kehayes, MPH, managing principal and CEO of Eveia Health Consulting & Management, discussed issues that are impacting negotiations between ambulatory surgery centers and payors, what…

At the 19th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Center Conference in Chicago on October 26, April Sackos, CASC, vice president of revenue cycle management for Ambulatory Surgery Centers of America, shared best practices for ASCs to reevaluate their revenue cycles. Here are…

Earlier this month, an appeals court overturned an $82.6 million judgment against Renal Care Group could slow the government's fight against healthcare billing fraud, according to BizJournals.

A lawsuit was filed again Covington, Ky.-based St. Elizabeth Healthcare and its physician group for overbilling patients, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.

At the 19th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference, Suzanne Webb, COO of ASC Billing Specialists, discussed five key strategies for successful out-of-network billing.

At the 19th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 26, Lisa Rock, president of National Medical Billing Services, discussed six areas ASCs must address in order to succeed with out-of-network billing.