ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Gov. Peter Shumlin (D-Vt.) will sign a bill on Thursday that sets Vermont on a path toward a single-payor system, the nation's first state to experiment with such a system, according to a New York Times report.

Anthony Hamm, DC, FACO, has been elected co-chair of the American Medical Association's Health Care Professionals Advisory Committee Review Board, according to a Dynamic Chiropractic report.

Up to 17,000 patients of Atlanta-based Morehouse Medical Associates could receive medical bills with no itemization, details of services rendered or explanation of when the services were provided, according to an 11Alive report.

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Here are five ambulatory surgery center coding and billing tips from the team at National Medical Billing Services.

CMS has announced it will begin reimbursing for four new Q codes effective for claims with dates of service on or after July 1.

CMS has announced Medicare will accept four new K codes for billing suction pumps and accompanying surgical dressings, effective July 1.

The National Insurance Crime Bureau reported a 23 percent rise in first quarter 2011 questionable claims over the same period in 2009, according to an NICB release.

Beverly Hills Surgical Center filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court against UnitedHealth Group and OptumHealth on April 22, alleging the insurers violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act through abusive overpayment recoupment practice.

Approximately 33 percent of Medicare claims for diagnostic radiology interpretation and report services submitted by hospital outpatient EDs in 2008 were paid in error, according to an OIG report and an AAPC release.