ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

The economy is only slowly starting to turn around, and Medicare reimbursements are taking a hit as well. It's no wonder, with the future looking so grim, that ASCs are nervous and anxious about how to remain competitive and financially…

Here is the current list (as of Feb. 9, 2011) of posterior chamber (P-C) and anterior chamber (A-C) intraocular lenses recognized by CMS.

In an article published in AAPC's Coding Edge, Angela "Annie" Boynton, BS, RHIT, CPC, CPC-P, CPC-H, CPC-I, CCS, CCS-P, provides some best practices for organizations to prepare for ICD-10 1,000 days from its implementation date of Oct. 1, 2013.

T.K. Miller, MD, medical director of Roanoke (Va.) Ambulatory Surgery Center, cites 10 assertions payors make in contract negotiations and how he would respond.

Here are five ways to improve coding at your ambulatory surgery center, according to Daria Semanyshyn of Advanced Medical Practice Management.

Two ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes are no longer eligible for a co-morbidity payment adjustment under the End-State Renal Disease Prospective Payment System, according to a release by the American Association of Professional Coders.

Ambulatory surgery center industry experts regularly preach about the difficulties ASCs face when attempting to collect co-pays and deductibles following a procedure and patient discharge. If the payment isn't collected up front, there's a good chance the surgery center will…

If federal antitrust guidelines were applied to health insurance markets, 99 percent of them would be deemed "highly concentrated," according to an AMA release.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has reported that some carriers are not recognizing the PT modifier for ASC claims, according to an Ambulatory Surgery Center Association release.

GENASCIS, a provider of billing, revenue cycle management services and supporting technologies for ambulatory surgery centers, recently presented a free webinar titled, "Keys to Transforming Surgery Centers Into a Profitable Business."