ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Here are five proven ways to increase your ASC collections and maintain a healthy A/Raccounts receivable.

The Office of Inspector General has issued a report with recommendations concerning payments for ambulatory surgery center services provided to beneficiaries in skilled nursing facility stays covered under Medicare Part A.

California, Maryland, New Jersey, Alaska, Massachusetts and Hawaii were the top paying states for coders in 2010, according to data released in AAPC's 2010 Salary Survey.

Coding is an ever-changing profession, and successful coders must be aware of industry changes in order to successfully represent the procedures performed in the ASC. Paul Cadorette, director of education for mdStrategies, discusses three resources every coder should use regularly.

Demonstration RACs have identified two high-risk vulnerabilities for physician claims leading to denials, according to an MLN Matters article from CMS.

Serbin Surgery Center Billing and Short Hills Surgery Center recently presented a free webinar entitled, "Hybrid Center – The Best of Both Worlds (How to Successfully Combine In-Network and Out-of-Network Reimbursement)."

Mark Lutes, attorney with Epstein Becker & Green discusses three payors whose relationship with ambulatory surgery centers may change over the next several years.

Here are five ways to use data, training and physician participation improve your revenue cycle process in 2011.

Here are 10 statistics on cash in ambulatory surgery centers, based on data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010.

Average salaries for coders increased slightly in 2010 over 2009 compensation, and coders have a lower rate of employment compared to the rest of the nation, according to the AAPC's 2010 Medical Coding Salary Survey.