CPT copyright 2010 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. According to Lolita M. Jones, RHIA, CCS, independent coding consultant, the CPT Codebook includes two categories of CPT codes for a…
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
Eric J. Woollen, vice president of managed care for Practice Partners in Healthcare, describes two situations where staying out-of-network may be an ambulatory surgery center's only option.
CMS has added 13 new modifiers and extended the one of one, as indicated in the January 2011 Integrated Outpatient Code Editor.
If communication fails between physicians and ambulatory surgery center coders, your ASC could end up coding claims inappropriately and receiving too little or too much money for a procedure. If your ASC has no formal query process in place, independent…
CPT copyright 2010 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.Lolita M. Jones, RHIA, CCS, an independent consultant specializing in hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgery center coding, billing, reimbursement and operations, discusses…
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Ambulatory surgery centers in California are facing a 20 percent reduction in reimbursement under proposed regulations from the California Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC), according to a news release from the California Ambulatory Surgery Association.
The new FAIR Health database, created under agreements with the New York attorney general's office and established as the arbiter of "usual, customary and reasonable" payment rates, is set to launch by late January, according to an American Medical News…
CPT copyright 2010 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. Nov. 2010's CPT Assistant article states that fluoroscopy is inclusive to ESI codes and that it should not be reported: "For…
CPT copyright 2010 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. Editor's Note: This article by Paul Cadorette, director of education for mdStrategies, originally appeared in The Coding Advocate, mdStrategies free monthly…
AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions, a provider of medical billing and practice management services for physicians, ambulatory surgery centers and other healthcare providers, has announced the appointment of J. Paul O'Haro as chief operating officer.