ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

The Colorado Attorney General's office will assist the group responsible for setting up a state health insurance exchange as it fights to undo the federal healthcare reform law that created the exchanges, according to a Pueblo Chieftain report.

Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee will issue an executive order today creating a health insurance exchange, according to a Providence Journal report.

New auto insurance rules in New Jersey would set a price limit on what hospitals can bill for 2,000 previously unregulated outpatient procedures, according to an NJ.com report.

Missouri insurance officials have delayed spending millions of federal dollars on the computer technology needed to implement a health insurance exchange as mandated under the federal healthcare law, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.

The Oklahoma state insurance commissioner said recently that workers' compensation insurance rates for state businesses should drop in 2012, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is seeking public input on Basic Health Programs, which would cover a specific portion of low-income individuals, according to an ASCA release.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott will allow some state workers to choose between two HMOs instead of one, backing down from a plan that would have restricted all workers to one HMO per county starting in Jan. 2012, according to a…

West Virginia lawmakers are studying whether to allow policyholders to require that insurers pay their providers directly, according to a Houston Chronicle report.

Healthcare providers are increasingly joining a movement to simplify difficult-to-understand patient bills, hoping to increase collections lost when patients do not know how much they owe, according to a Healthcare Finance News report.

Becky Ziegler Otis, RHIA, CPHQ, CHC, administrator of the Ambulatory Surgical Center of Stevens Point (Wis.), discusses how her surgery center decreased days in A/R from around 100 to the industry benchmark of 35-40.