ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

A Newark, N.J., man has been charged with refusing to forward an insurance payment to Northwood Surgery Center in Lower Nazareth Township, N.J., according to a Lehigh Valley Live report.

The Michigan House has approved a bill that would cap a public emlployer'’s contribution at $15,000 for family coverage and $5,500 for individual policy coverage, according to an MLive report.

Health insurance rates will increase for more than 1.5 million California residents starting today, according to a Sacramento Bee report.

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…