ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Journal Square Surgical Center in Jersey City, N.J., is hosting an information session to discuss sweeping new personal injury protection regulations proposed by the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance.

Blue Shield of California recommends the use of a network ambulatory surgery center over a network hospital for outpatient surgery as a way to save money in an article in its Sept. Now I Know newsletter.

The special deficit reduction panel of the U.S. Congress may target Medicare supplemental health plans, according to a Reuters report.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott is preparing to launch an insurance marketplace that looks distinctly different from those created under the federal healthcare reform law, according to a Washington Post report.

Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia will receive a portion of $109 million in federal grants, designed to help their efforts to analyze health plans' large premium increase requests, according to an American Medical News report.

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The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association has announced it recently hosted members from California, Florida and Tennessee on Capitol Hill so they could meet with their members of Congress and staff members to ask for support of the ASC Quality and…

More insurance companies are using social media to catch fraud, according to a WUSA9 report.

Half of Texas physicians would consider withdrawing from the Medicare program if Congress enacts deep reimbursement cuts, according to officials from the Texas Medical Association and a Star-Telegram report.

Approximately 40 percent of Medicare spending on common preventive cancer screenings are regarded as medically unnecessary, according to an iWatch News investigation reported in the Huffington Post.