ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Up to 220,000 uninsured California children may be excluded from healthcare reform programs due to their or their parents' immigration status, according to a California Watch report.

New CMS regulations are targeting so-called "mini-med" healthcare insurance plans, which cover routine and inexpensive healthcare needs but not catastrophic care, according to a Healthcare News report.

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Two consumer groups in Massachusetts are asking lawmakers to give patients a one-year reprieve from healthcare premium increases, according to a Boston Globe report.

Starting July 1, Georgia state-licensed insurance companies will be able to sell out-of-state health insurance policies that provide less coverage than Georgia requires, according to an Insurance Journal report.

More Massachusetts state employees chose this year to enroll in plans that limit the providers they can see, according to a Boston Globe report.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has decided to cancel its "mystery shopper" program, originally intended to analyze whether primary care physicians accept or reject new patients based on the type of insurance they hold, according to an…

In a webinar titled "Maximizing Reimbursement for ASCs," Caryl Serbin of SourceMedical Revenue Cycle Solutions discussed eight problem areas that delay ASC reimbursement and increase the likelihood of denials.

Fewer physicians are accepting new patients with health insurance, according to research from Weill Cornell Medical College, reported in All Headline News.

Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford said Monday he plans to ask the state Legislature for the authority to set up its health insurance exchange next year, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.