ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Chuck Brown is administrator of Bidwell Surgery Center, a Health Inventures ASC in Middletown, Ohio.

The Wall Street Journal recently started a discussion about whether a person's financial status should impact the Medicare benefits they receive.

Federal health officials say Montana has failed to create a system to review health insurance rate increases in the state, and the federal government will therefore take over reviews starting Sept. 1, according to a Missoulian report.

The American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians has announced its support of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Quality and Access Act of 2011 (H.R. 2108, S. 1173), recently lobbying for passage of these bills during ASIPP's 13th Annual Meeting in Washington,…

The following article is written by Michael Orseno, revenue cycle director for Regent Surgical Health.   ICD-10/5010 is rapidly approaching — is your facility ready? With less than six months to go before the first mandated phase of ICD-10, facilities…

CMS and the American Academy of Professional Coders hosted a Code-a-Thon on April 26, at which coding experts from AAPC responded to nearly 250 questions from more than 1,200 participants, according to a CMS release.

President Obama recently proposed raising the age of Medicare eligibility incrementally through 2036, as his administration works with Republican leaders to make an Aug. 2 deadline for increasing the nation's borrowing limit, according to a USA Today report.

CPT copyright 2010 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.   Editor's Note: This article by Paul Cadorette, director of education for mdStrategies, originally appeared in The Coding Advocate, mdStrategies free…

Amerinet, a national healthcare group purchasing organization, has partnered with Atigeo, a technology company focused on delivering semantic software, to provide customized healthcare solutions spanning clinical decision-making, research and development, improved patient care and a reduction in costs, according to…

A New Jersey appeals court ruled Tuesday that the state legislature did not overstep its authority in allowing Human Services to end coverage for nearly 12,000 legal immigrants enrolled in the state's FamilyCare program, according to a Star-Ledger report.