ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

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.

An American Medical News article highlighted three way for physicians to influence payors to change a policy, fix a problem or reverse a decision.

Part A/B Medicare administrative contractor Highmark Medicare Services has changed its name to Novitas Solutions, according to an AAPC report.

Internal medicine physicians like using electronic health records more than physicians in other specialties, according to a report from health research firm KLAS and an AAPC report.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is moving to implement part of the healthcare reform law by reviewing insurance rates to determine if any are "unreasonably high," despite the state's opposition to the reform law as a whole, according to an NECN…

Hospitals and outpatient surgery centers have been more successful at bargaining for higher rates from employer-sponsored health plans than physicians in 2012 so far, according to data from Milliman Inc. in Seattle.

Hospitals can save money by using health information exchanges to reduce readmissions, according to an American Medical News report.