ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

T.K. Miller, MD, medical director of Roanoke (Va.) Ambulatory Surgery Center, cites 10 assertions payors make in contract negotiations and how he would respond.

Here are five ways to improve coding at your ambulatory surgery center, according to Daria Semanyshyn of Advanced Medical Practice Management.

Two ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes are no longer eligible for a co-morbidity payment adjustment under the End-State Renal Disease Prospective Payment System, according to a release by the American Association of Professional Coders.

Ambulatory surgery center industry experts regularly preach about the difficulties ASCs face when attempting to collect co-pays and deductibles following a procedure and patient discharge. If the payment isn't collected up front, there's a good chance the surgery center will…

If federal antitrust guidelines were applied to health insurance markets, 99 percent of them would be deemed "highly concentrated," according to an AMA release.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has reported that some carriers are not recognizing the PT modifier for ASC claims, according to an Ambulatory Surgery Center Association release.

GENASCIS, a provider of billing, revenue cycle management services and supporting technologies for ambulatory surgery centers, recently presented a free webinar titled, "Keys to Transforming Surgery Centers Into a Profitable Business."

Coding experts disagree on the effectiveness and necessity of ICD-10, according to a set of opposing editorials published by the American Association of Professional Coders.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently clarified when modifier KY DMEPOS item subject to DMEPOS competitive bidding program number 5 should be used to report durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies subject to competitive bidding, according to…

Here are 10 statistics about ambulatory surgery center A/R turnover, based on VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010.