ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

While Texas is reviewing health insurance companies' rate increases of at least 10 percent to determine whether they are justified, as mandated under healthcare reform, the state has not yet publicized information on significant rate hikes to the public, according…

Insurance company Aetna is suing seven California surgery centers for a billing system that the payor claims "recklessly subverts" healthcare delivery by allegedly overcharging for certain services, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.

Methodist Healthcare has agreed to provide in-network medical care to members enrolled in Humana's Medicare Advantage HMO plan, a decision that will bring Methodist surgery centers in the greater San Antonio area in-network, according to a San Antonio Business Journal…

CPT copyright 2012 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. The following article is written by Cristina Bentin, CCS-P, CPC-H, CMA, president of Coding Compliance Management.   The revision of CPT…

Missouri senators have approved a measure that would require approval from lawmakers or voters before the state implements a health insurance exchange, according to an Associated Press report.

LCA-Vision, the laser eye surgery center operator, was named one of Cincinnati's top 10 stocks in January after stocks nearly doubled in the first week of trading, according to a Business Courier report.

Andrea Woodell is managed care manager for Regent Surgical Health.   There are several steps necessary to ensure a profitable transition from an independent ambulatory surgery center to a partnership with a hospital:

Shelly Cronin, CPC, CPMA, CANPC, CGSC, CGIC, CEU vendor department manager for AAPC, discusses common mistakes made in GI ambulatory surgery center coding and what coders need to know about changes to GI coding in 2012.

Outpatient hospital costs in states without fee schedules are 27-73 percent higher than states with fee schedules, according to a report by the Workers Compensation Research Institute.

More specialists are expanding their practices to include lucrative cosmetic procedures, which are paid for out-of-pocket by patients, according to a New York Times report.