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ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
1. Reimbursement cutsUncertainty about federal regulation and legislation that could lead to reimbursement reductions from government payors is the top concern of many surgeons, including Neal Lintecum, MD, an orthopedic hand surgeon who practices at Lawrence (Kan.) Surgery Center. Dr.…
Jan Kohlbeck, a billing and reimbursement coordinator with more than 20 years of experience, and Kate Willhite, executive director of Manitowoc (Wis.) Surgery Center, share three simple best practices for successful ASC billing processes.
Houston-based Northstar Healthcare announced that its The Palladium for Surgery-Houston facility settled a dispute with one of its largest payors, a major private health insurance provider, according to a Northstar news release.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced that ambulatory surgical centers will receive a 1.2 percent inflation update for Medicare payments beginning Jan. 1, 2010.
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New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced the creation of FAIR Health, new non-profit company, and an upstate research network headquartered at Syracuse University that will develop a new independent database for consumer out-of-network reimbursement and a new Web…
SpineLine, Medtronic's coding and reimbursement support line, receives thousands of queries each year, and Leigh Evans, MBA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, the senior coding and reimbursement analyst at Medtronic, personally deals with many of them. Here Ms. Evans addresses three…
New federal legislation to permanently eliminate planned yearly cuts in Medicare reimbursements for physicians may not have enough votes to pass Congress because it would raise healthcare costs — on paper, at least, according to a report by the New…
Providers who want to improve their revenue cycle should follow the following five best practices, offered by SmartFund Medical, a complete revenue cycle management solution, for their coding, billing and collections.
A bill introduced in the Senate last week by Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and supported by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) would stop next year's reductions in Medicare reimbursement rates to physicians, according to a report by the Los…