At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 29, Yvonda Moore, director of implementation at GENASCIS, and Rosalind Richmond, interim coding compliance officer at GENASCIS, discussed best practices in surgery center coding, documentation and charge capture.
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The Obama administration has proposed a change that would quickly reinstate physicians who are kicked out of the Medicare program because of a clerical or administrative error, according to an American Medical News report.
Cutting Medicaid by 5 percent could cost U.S. states $14 billion and trigger massive job losses, according to a study by the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems and reported by Reuters.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has failed to win a lawsuit over whether the state can increase judges' health insurance and pension contributions, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer report.
Approximately 11,000 Washington residents who were deemed ineligible for the state's Basic Health insurance program because of their immigration status will be allowed to re-enroll, according to a Seattle Times report.
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Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York City are planning to target the health insurance industry with a march and speak-out today, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee vetoed legislation intended to close a loophole in San Francisco's law requiring employers to provide some funding for workers' healthcare expenses, according to an SFGate report.
Only 49 people have signed up for a Wyoming pilot program designed to offer health insurance to as many as 500 working residents who otherwise couldn't afford it, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
Federal healthcare reform could save New Jersey nearly $100 million in 2012 by affecting the state's health coverage for public workers, according to a North Jersey report.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's decision to reject a $31.5 million federal grant to establish a health insurance exchange has met with controversy, according to an LJ World report.