Larry Taylor, president and CEO of Practice Partners in Healthcare, describes five steps ASCs should take for collecting payments from patients.
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
It is clear that ASC billing is becoming more complex every day, even without the impending effects of healthcare reform. At best, reimbursement trends are flat and probably headed down, with most private-payor negotiations resulting in lower rates and pressures…
Brian Brown, regional vice president of operations at Meridian Surgical Partners, lists six ways to make the ASC billing process more profitable.
Pain management can be a productive addition to an ASC. However, due to the high volume nature of the specialty and the nearly 47 million uninsured Americans, an experienced and determined billing and collection department is essential to the success…
Health insurers with policies requiring preauthorization permission delays or interrupts patient access to care, according to the results of an American Medical Association survey.
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April Sackos, CASC, director of business operations at Meridian Surgical Partners, offers six best practices for collecting out-of-pocket payments from patients in ASCs.
ASCs frequently don't pay sufficient attention to billing operations, which can result in overwhelmed staff, uncollected money and significant losses, according to Caryl Serbin, president of Serbin Surgery Center Billing. "ASCs are often understaffed or billing personnel are inexperienced and…
The New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Co. praised changes to the state's Personal Injury Protection fee schedule, which limited the amount ASCs can collect for such cases to 300 percent of Medicare reimbursement, and indicated an intent to push harder for…
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