ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights has issued a warning to physicians: You will be held accountable for HIPAA violations regardless of your practice size, according to an American Medical News report.

A lawsuit in California is pitting a large insurer against a network of surgical centers over patient referrals to out-of-network providers, according to a Workforce report.

State insurance regulators recently approved an average 1.2 percent quarterly increase in base health insurance rates in Massachusetts, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.

As the June 30, 2012 CMS enforcement date of version 5010 approaches rapidly, practices and surgery centers must get up to date with implementation or face rejected transactions and possible penalties from CMS, according to Debbi Meisner, vice president of…

Providers and suppliers of healthcare supplies and services to Medicare beneficiaries will pay contractors more in interest for unrecouped overpayments and delinquent underpayments in the second quarter, according to an AAPC report.

Consultants have advised some large employers they can save money by dropping health insurance in 2014 and sending employees to buy insurance through health insurance exchanges, according to a report by congressional Republicans reported in FOX Business.

Jeff Shanton, chair of the advocacy and legislative affairs committee of the NJAASC, recently submitted comments to the New Jersey Department of Banking Insurance on the proposed state PIP regulations.

The medical loss ratio is finally about to hit the health insurance industry, as health insurers across the country will have to refund $1.2 billion in cumulative 2011 profits, according to a Goldman Sachs analysis in a Bloomberg Businessweek report.

Department of Health and Human secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced a proposed rule that would delay the compliance date for ICD-10 from Oct. 1, 2013 to Oct. 1, 2014, according to an AAPC report.

The California Ambulatory Surgery Association recently held its fourth annual ASC Health Plan Summit, a meeting of ASC leaders and all major California health plans.  The event was designed to identify common goals, work through managed care roadblocks and accentuate…