ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

At the 10th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 15, 2012, Bill Gilbert, vice president of marketing for AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions, explained how process improvement techniques — better known as Lean processes — can…

At the 10th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 16, Catherine Meredith, vice president of finance for the Ambulatory Surgery Centers of America, discussed ways to optimize a surgery center's revenue cycle.

At the 10th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 16, Stephanie Ellis, RN, CPC, with Ellis Medical Consulting, discussed 15 current procedure terminology coding issues for orthopedic and spine ambulatory surgery center facilities.

At the 10th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 15, Christy A. May and Kathy Lindstrom of ProVation gave a presentation titled “Physician Engagement and ICD-10: The Role of the Physician in a Succession…

At the 10th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 15, Lisa Rock, president of National Medical Billing Services, discussed best practices to improve billing and collections at ambulatory surgery centers.

Adding spine and orthopedics to an ambulatory surgery center is not a cake walk, as there are several points to know regarding their background and how they should be treated in managed care contracting negotiations.

At the 10th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 14, 2012, Kevin McDonald, senior vice president of sales of the revenue cycle solutions division of SourceMedical Solutions, discussed the impact of and preparation for…

July 2012 updates to the Integrated Outpatient Code Editor, the CMS system for filing and adjudicating claims paid under the Outpatient Prospective Payment System, include a change to bring it in line with correct coding guidelines. The OCE is used…

James Rice, MD, chief of staff at Mercy Health Partners, has a plan to reform healthcare in the United States, according to an MLive report.

Industry experts discuss different situations when either outsourcing billing services or creating an in-house billing department makes more sense for surgery centers.