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ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
A new Missouri law will impose financial penalties on insurers in the state that take more than 45 days to pay claims to healthcare providers, according to a report by Bloomberg Business Week.
As The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act enters the implementation phase, politicians and health insurers are expected to battle over as to how new rules and regulations should roll out, according to a report in American Medical News.
Q: Can a physician code a consult regarding a patient he or she is seeing for facet injections — with the patient and the patient's orthopedist who is on the phone — just before he or she does these injections…
WellPoint, which runs Anthem Blue Cross in California, withdrew its request for rate increases in California's individual insurance market after the state's insurance commissioner found flaws with the company's methodology, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
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Citing the state's "any-willing-provider" law, Georgia's Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine ruled that Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia must allow Northeast Georgia Cancer Care of Athens into its HMO plan, according to a report in American Medical News.
Excessive administrative complexity related to billing costs physicians practices nearly 12 percent of their net patient revenue, according to a study in Health Affairs.
Here are the 2010 CMS reimbursement rates for five GERD-related upper endoscopy procedures in the ASC setting.
Wellcare Health Plans, a Tampa-Fla.-based company that manages Illinois' largest Medicaid HMO plan, revealed that it had overbilled the state by around $1 million from July 2006-June 2009, according to a report in The Chicago Tribune.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has made progress transitioning claims administration to 19 Medicare Administrative Contractors, as set in place by The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003; however, the agency encountered some challenges that…