ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

South Shore Hospital, based in Weymouth, Mass., is reimbursing Medicare for about $341,000 from 249 billing or coding errors in 2008 and 2009, according to a Patriot Ledger report.

Ronald A. McFarland, president of Verimed Services and Medical Alliance Partners in State College, Pa., has admitted to embezzling $2.46 million in health insurance reimbursements from two cancer treatment centers, according to a Centre Daily Times report.

The following Q&A comes from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services website.   Q: Where can I find a list of procedures and ancillary services that are payable in the Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) setting and their associated payment…

The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health recently held a hearing to discuss the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's (MedPAC) annual report, during which several members of Congress spoke in support of ambulatory surgery centers and called for parity between…

The following Q&A comes from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services website. Q: For the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs, should patient encounters in an ambulatory surgical center (Place of Service 24) be included in…

Health insurers' decisions on applications and claims vary widely and are frequently reversed on appeal, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office.

Saying the individual health insurance market is "broken," Blue Shield of California has abandoned a proposal to raise individual premiums by as much as 86.5 percent, according to Blue Shield release.

The following article is written by Caryl A. Serbin, RN, BSN, LHRM, executive vice president and chief strategy officer of SourceMedical.   Although most financial analysts are forecasting a continuing slow economic recovery in 2011, some healthcare prognosticators are predicting…

Wolters Kluwer Health has announced Desert Sun Gastroenterology in Tucson, Ariz., has selected its ProVation MD software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding.

One in four Americans struggled to pay their medical bills last year, according to a survey by the Commonwealth Fund reported in Kaiser Health News.