CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, which serves some 3.2 million people in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia, plans to launch a program Jan. 1, 2011, that would reward physicians with bonuses for decreasing patients' healthcare expenses and improving quality, according to…
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
Beth A. Johnson is vice president of clinical systems for Blue Chip Surgical Center Partners.
Effective May 25, 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will deny all claims for collagen meniscus implant procedures, after the agency concluded that evidence showed the implant does not improve health outcomes, according to a report in MLN…
States may be forced to slash Medicaid reimbursements yet more next year, after generous federal enhancements are due to end, according to a report by Kaiser Health News.
Becky Zigler-Otis is the administrator of the Ambulatory Surgical Center of Stevens Point (Wis.), a freestanding, multi-specialty independent ASC.
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April Sackos, director of business office operations for Meridian Surgical Partners, shares three steps an ASC should take if it is experiencing challenges with collections.
Many surgery centers attempt to collect the patient portion of a payment for services performed at a surgery center after the patient has left the ASC. This is clearly a recipe for bad debt, says Lindsay Miller, vice president of…
Vickie L. Sanders is vice president of business office services for Nueterra Healthcare.Q: Our ASC continues to struggle to collect the self-pay balance from our patients. What can we do?
Two transmittals issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services provided updates to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System, including clarification of outpatient diagnostic services policies and changes to device and Category III codes to be implemented on July…
West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital in Sulphur, La., is the first in the Lake Charles area to have anesthesia services covered in-network by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana after nearly six months of being out of network, according to a…