An Illinois legislative plan has approved a temporary health insurance plan intended to increase options for approximately 200,000 state employees and retirees, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
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North Dakota lawmakers have begun drafting legislation to broaden health insurance coverage by establishing a health insurance exchange, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
One-third of employers will cut health insurance benefits for employees over the next few years, according to a survey of 1,300 employers conducted by McKinsey and Company.
The billing cycle, the payment cycle and payor-clean claims should be major areas of emphasis for any orthopedic center, said Woody Runner, CEO of Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic, at the 9th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago…
Like other ambulatory surgery centers in New Jersey, Short Hills Surgery Center was once 100 percent out-of-network but has been under intense pressure from the state legislature and major payors to go in-network. Nancy Easley-Mack, business office manager of the…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has lifted its marketing and enrollment ban on Aetna Medicare, according to an Aetna news release.
Caral Edelberg, CPC, CPMA, CAC, CCS-P, CHC, recently wrote an article for AAPC that encouraged billers and coders to educate themselves on proper evaluation and management auditing.
The April edition of CMS' Medicare Quarterly Provider Compliance Newsletter clarified recent RAC findings affecting inpatient rehabilitation facilities, physicians, non-physician practitioners, radiology suppliers and inpatient and outpatient hospitals, according to an AAPC report.
Physicians are balking over a proposal to curb the overuse of MRIs and other advanced imaging in Medicare, according to a Kaiser Health News report.
CMS has issued its July 2011 update of the ambulatory surgical center payment system.