ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has released an updated Medicare Payment Basics document on the ambulatory surgical centers payment system.

Slowing growth in health insurance costs may squeeze profit margins for smaller insurance companies focused on commercial coverage, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.

As of last month, health insurance rates in Wisconsin will come under scrutiny for the first time, according to a JS Online report.

CMS has clarified the situations in which a pharmacy can bill for dispensing certain drugs, according to an AAPC release.

Mary Ryan, administrator of Tri-State Surgery Center in Dubuque, Iowa, managed by Health Inventures, shares 10 steps to negotiate profitable contracts and make money on every procedure.

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.