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ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission voted to recommend that ASCs receive a 0.5 percent payment increase in 2013, according to an ASCA release.
CMS has corrected the 2012 ASC payment rates published in November by the agency, according to an ASCA report.
CMS has indicated to the ASC Association that recent payments to surgery centers may not have reflected Congress' Dec. 23 vote to delay a potential reduction in physician payments due to the flawed SGR formula, according to an ASCA release.
More patients are noticing added charges on their hospital bills, due to some hospitals charging an extra "facilities charge" when patients are treated at off-site, hospital-affiliated locations, according to a Fierce Healthcare report.
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Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has signed a rule allowing enrollment insurance companies to offer "child-only" policies, according to a Daily O'Collegian report.
Virginia House Democrats proposed a measure Tuesday to establish health insurance exchanges in the state, a system that would allow consumers to purchase affordable health coverage in an online marketplace, according to a Washington Post report.
Changes with the 2012 CPT Manual have made an impact on coding for arthroscopic procedures, according to a report in AAOS Now.
Ohio state officials want to link the Medicare and Medicaid programs so that beneficiaries who enroll in both only have to work with a single program to receive the services, according to an Associated Press report.
American Medical Association delegates have been vocal about their disdain for ICD-10, voicing opinions that the transition to the coding system will impose unnecessary and significant burdens on the practice of medicine, according to a General Surgery News report.