ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Here is expert insight to help you overcome four payor challenges. Look for more CMS/third-party payor issues discussed and guidance to help you with your reimbursement challenges in the Sept./Oct. issue of Becker’s ASC Review.

Orthopedics saw many new procedures added to the Medicare-approved ASC list for 2008. Here are 30 of those procedures which you may want to consider adding to your list of procedures performed at your ASC, as suggested by Stephanie Ellis,…

Struggling with reimbursement from Medicare and your third-party payors? Don’t worry — you’re not alone. Here is practical guidance to to help you overcome four challenges. Look for 34 payor issues discussed and guidance to get the reimbursement you deserve…

Payors that have followed Medicare’s payment system in the past, but don’t want to switch to the new system, may give you myriad reasons/excuses – they need more time to analyze the methodology, their systems don’t have the capability to…

Thile the expanded list of Medicare-approved procedures may have resulted (or will result) in your ASC’s performing new procedures this year, this does not mean you can or should be any less careful with how you code your older procedures.…

For years hospital errors were corrected and billed as part of a patient’s treatment; in just a few months, Medicare will change that practice, and now, national media are starting to pay attention.

Pharmaceutical manufacturers and the federal government are increasingly at odds concerning Medicare's reimbursement of perscriptions drugs. In fact, Medicare only reimburses health care providers and suppliers for drugs perscribed and furnished to patients incident to services rendered.