ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

CMS moves are changing the way physicians practice. Here are four recent moves from CMS that are either helping or hurting physicians:

The push to revamp prior authorization practices has picked up steam recently.

The New York City Council is considering bills that would ban noncompetes after Gov. Kathy Hochul in December vetoed a bill that would have prohibited them statewide, Newsday reported March 17. 

A bill amending Washington's noncompete policy was signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee on March 13, according to a news release from the Washington Senate Democrats. 

The Florida Legislature declined to pass two laws banning noncompetes for physicians and doctors of osteopathic medicine, law firm McDermott Will & Emery said in a March 12 blog post. 

Here are six CMS moves that are helping and hurting ASCs.

Five ASC procedures are projected to experience a decline in reimbursements in 2024, according to a VMG Health report. 

Prior authorization practices and protocols have changed among many major payers in the last year.

CMS has announced a program that will accelerate payments to Medicare Part A providers and advance payments to Part B providers who were impacted by the Change Healthcare cyberattack, according to a March 9 report from the American Medical Association. 

Physicians across the country are pushing to reform, and in some cases ban, noncompete clauses, which prohibit them from seeing patients one to two years within a geographic region if they are fired or quit their job, NBC News reported…