Kevin Dowdy, director of managed care for Meridian Surgical Partners, shares three tactics to improve your chances at successful managed care contract negotiations, and one you should avoid.
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
Many orthopedics procedures, especially shoulder and knee surgeries, often require a pain block to manage the patients' pain postoperatively. However, these claims are some of the most commonly denied in ASCs on the first pass, often due to payor issues…
Vickie L. Sanders is vice president of business office services for Nueterra Healthcare.Q: Our ASC isn't performing as well as in the past. What are some areas we should focus on to identify possible problems and start improving our situation?
A small but growing number of doctors are asking patients to pay new fees for uncovered services, according to a report by USA Today.
The American Academy of Professional Coders has launched a practice management initiative to help physician practices improve the efficiency and accuracy of their business practices and claims submissions, according to a release by the AAPC.
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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…
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.