Recent rankings by Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth, a leading provider of internet-based business services to physician practices, and Physicians Practice show that national health insurers are paying physicians 5.3 percent faster and denying 9.0 percent fewer medical claims over the prior…
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
Q: What is the industry standard formula for calculating A/R days? We have struggled with this and our self-pay/workers' compensation tend to keep us about 48 days.
The ASC Communications audioconference Case Study: Improving ASC Billing and Collections featuring Caryl Serbin, president and founder of Surgery Consultants of America and Serbin Surgery Center Billing and an expert on ASC reimbursement and billing, took place on May 20.
Note: The following column appeared in EndoEconomics, a journal published by Physicians Endoscopy. Have you ever wondered if your ASC is efficiently billing and collecting? Are you collecting every dollar that is due? Take the time to review all the…
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm issued an executive order to cut $304 million from the state's general fund budget, which included a 4 percent reduction in Medicaid reimbursement for healthcare providers, according to a report in Crain's Detroit Business.
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A Massachusetts state commission plans to recommend that healthcare insurers reimburse physicians and hospitals with a set payment that is intended to cover the care of each patient for the entire year, according to a report by the Boston Globe.
The New York Office of the Medicaid Inspector General has released its work plan for fiscal year 2009-10, which describes the agency's plan to combat Medicaid fraud.
TITLE: Case Study: Improving ASC Billing and Collections
The reporting of orthopedic, spinal and pain management procedures continue to provide challenges for many ASCs regardless of whether the coder is a novice or a seasoned veteran. Below are five best practices to help ensure your facility captures reimbursement…
Did you know that when your ASC facility has a Medicare patient who requests a Presbyopia-Correcting (PC) IOL lens or an Astigmatism-Correcting (AC) IOL lens (instead of a regular IOL) that there are special guidelines that must be followed to…