Connecticut is planning to select a board and staff members to oversee the development of a state health insurance exchange, which would allow individuals and small businesses to comparison shop for health insurance starting in 2014, according to a Health…
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
The annual Iowa Employer Benefits Study showed a disparity growing between rural and urban Iowa in the cost, availability and quality of employer-based health insurance, according to a Des Moines Register report.
Former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, advisor to Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney, has expressed his support for state health insurance exchanges, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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.
Advertisement
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.