ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

The growing number of ASCs that choose to outsource their billing have options. ASC billing companies usually offer similar services and promise similar results like endto-end revenue cycle management, strengthened bottom-line performance and increased efficiency. These are all important deliverables…

The U.S. sued a plastic surgeon formerly of Tri-State Specialists in Sioux City, Iowa, for violating the False Claims Act.

ASC reimbursements in many markets are not keeping up with the rising cost of inflation and general costs of living. 

National Medical Billing Services rebranded to nimble solutions to align with its core values of agility, innovation and client-centricity.

Washington offers physician assistants the highest hourly mean wage, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational employment statistics survey.

Matt Mazurek, MD, assistant clinical professor of anesthesiology and director of quality and safety at St. Raphael's Campus of Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital, joined Becker's to discuss physicians' biggest reimbursement issues. 

CMS has issued a final rule to help streamline Medicare Advantage and Part D prior authorizations. 

CMS policies are stifling the migration of procedures to the outpatient setting, Bill Prentice, CEO of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, said at a California Ambulatory Surgery Association summit with payers and industry stakeholders. 

Some healthcare leaders say the No Surprises Act, aimed to protect patients against balance billing and create cost transparency, has accelerated reimbursement issues. 

Physicians in the U.S. make $121.15 an hour on average, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational employment statistics survey.