ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Philip Blair, CEO of Surgery Center Services of America, spoke with Becker's about his ASC companies' biggest growth targets and why cardiology is so important for ASCs. 

CMS added a Stark law waiver for physician owners of independent free-standing emergency departments that served Medicare patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an article written by three attorneys from the firm McDermott, Will & Emery and published in…

California-based Kaiser Permanente Health Plans is the largest payer in the U.S., covering about 9,257,115 patients and incurring $48.19 billion in claims, according to data published Feb. 20 by Definitive Healthcare. 

Texas ASC leaders are seeing a growing amount of hostile state legislation. 

Texas' price transparency laws are burdening ASCs, many leaders say. 

Sixty-five percent of physicians plan to continue treating Medicare and Medicaid patients, according to Medscape's "Physician Compensation Report 2023," a 6 percent decrease from last year's report.

Here are five updates about prior authorizations that ASCs need to know:

I always attribute my journey in the healthcare industry to a desire to follow in my father's footsteps. In 1998, I founded Medi-Corp to provide tailored revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions for the anesthesia and pain management industry.

CMS' policies have the power to turn the tide of the surgery center industry. Here is how those policies have both helped and hurt ASCs in 2023.

Although the mean annual wage among healthcare administrators is $122,420, that can vary based on factors including experience and practice setting, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational employment statistics survey.