ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Healthcare coding software company Health Language announced it's partnering with NextGen Healthcare, an information systems connectivity provider, to enhance billing workflow for physicians, according to a Market Watch report.

G. Keith Smith, an anesthesiologist and chief medical director at the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, has been vocal about his belief in price transparency in ASCs, according to a Fierce Health Finance report.

Medical billing and software company CareCloud has announced it will team up with Nashville, Tenn.-based Doctors Access, a practice management software company, to create a dynamic new physician management program, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Here are 10 statistics on payor reimbursement as a percent of Medicare, based on Medscape's Insurer Ratings Report 2011. In this survey, physicians reported what percentage of Medicare their best payor reimbursed. The statistics can vary based on location and…

Physician practices may miss out on reimbursement through simple mistakes, according to an AAPC report written by Jackie Stack, CPC, CPC-I, CEMC, CFPC, CIMC, CPEDC.

Tenet Healthcare Corporation has announced it has signed a new multi-year agreement with Cigna, under which Cigna customers will have access to healthcare services at all hospitals owned and operated by Tenet subsidiaries, according to a Market Watch report.

Despite acknowledging that the hospital market basket would be a more appropriate system on which to base surgery center payment updates, CMS continues to base updates on the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, according to an ASCA report.

Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, both Massachusetts-based insurers, are jumping at the chance to reach more than 30 million Americans who now need coverage, as per the Supreme Court's ruling last month, according to the Boston Globe.

Patients are often confused when it comes to submitting claims to secondary insurance policies, according to AAPC.

A recent statewide survey by the California Public Interest Research Group Education Fund in San Francisco showed large discrepancies in what hospitals charge for common elective procedures, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.