Melody Winter-Jabeck, administrator at Ravine Way Surgery Center in Glenview, Ill., shares five best practices ASCs can adopt to improve their revenue cycles.
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
Auditing your billing process is essential to making sure your staff is performing well and your finances are in order. Daria Semanyshyn of Advanced Medical Practice Management discusses three essential steps every ASC billing department should take to ensure consistent…
Many ASCs do not follow a time of service (TOS) policy to collect patient co-pays, but the data shows those ASCs are losing out on owed payments. According to a study conducted by GENASCIS, a provider of billing, revenue cycle…
Maintaining accounts receivable is necessary to improve your billing process. Daria Semanyshyn of Advanced Medical Practice Management discusses four steps to audit your A/R and catch problems in a timely fashion.
CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.Lolita M. Jones, RHIA, CCS, a consultant specializing in ASC and hospital outpatient coding, billing, reimbursement and operations, discusses eight common ASC…
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Coding experts agree that ASCs should conduct regular audits of their coding processes to ensure the ASC is not upcoding, a possible fraud issue, or downcoding, leading to a loss of owed reimbursement. Coding consultant Lolita M. Jones, RHIA, CCS,…
SourceMedical, provider of outpatient information management solutions to ASCs, has announced it has acquired Serbin Surgery Center Billing, which specializes in ASC billing.
According to Daria Semanyshyn of Advanced Medical Practice Management in Florham Park, N.J., "the likelihood that your claim will be denied will probably be determined before the patient even walks through the door."
CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. The American Medical Association has accepted three new CPT codes for balloon sinus dilation technology during endoscopic sinus surgery for…
Following the Senate, the House passed a one-month Medicare physicians fee-fix, averting a 23 percent fee-cut two days before it was due to kick in, according to the Hill.