The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a final rule with comment period today that will update payment policies and payment rates for services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries in hospital outpatient departments and surgery centers beginning Jan. 1, 2012,…
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has appointed a 17-member task force to develop proposals to improve quality of care, reduce health disparities among Minnesota residents and cut costs, according to a Star Tribune report.
Illinois lawmakers are moving forward with legislation that would create an online health insurance exchange, despite questions over who will foot the $89 million bill, according to a FOX Illinois report.
Virginia residents who receive health insurance through their employers are paying more and more due to higher costs, as the average deductible for family health plans has risen more than 70 percent over the last five years, according to a…
Companies are giving workers an ultimatum — quit smoking and lose weight or pay more for healthcare in 2013, according to a Reuters report.
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At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Center Conference in Chicago on Oct. 29, Stephanie Ellis, RN, CPC, president of Ellis Medical Consulting, gave a presentation titled "How to Improve Coding for ASC Procedures — A Discussion of Orthopedic, GI and…
At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 29, Elizabeth Lamkin and Bill Behrens, partners at PACE Healthcare Consulting, discussed how Medicare recovery audit contractors are entering into the ASC sector and what ASCs need to…
At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 27, Rob Murphy, president of Murphy Healthcare Group discussed how an ASC can be profitable when going in-network for certain procedures.
The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association has announced there are three new co-sponsors of the ASC Quality and Access Act of 2011, according to a report in its ASCA Government Affairs Update.
Medicare Advantage plans are looking to achieve physician buy-in on the five-star rating system, which bestows a five-star status on high-quality plans from CMS, according to an American Medical News report.