Four lawmakers have reintroduced legislation to increase Medicare beneficiaries' access to affordable outpatient surgical care.
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
Rising operating costs amid record-breaking inflation is making it difficult for ASCs to meet margins.
A bill introduced in the 2024 New York State Executive Budget would require regulatory review for certain physician practice and management service organization transactions.
In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) are facing new payer trends that are reshaping the way they are reimbursed for their services.
Most hospitals aren't complying with federal price transparency rules that went into effect January 2021, with few consequences, according to the Fourth Semi-Annual Hospital Price Transparency Report from the PatientRightsAdvocate.org.
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Hudson, Ohio-based physician Deepak Raheja, MD, was sentenced to prison and must pay $2.2 million after pleading guilty to his role in a pharmaceutical kickback scheme, the U.S. Justice Department said Feb. 3.
UnitedHealthcare made changes to its outpatient procedure group mapping that went into effect Jan. 1.
CMS updated ASC payment rates to 3.8 percent, the most critical reimbursement shift in 2022, according to VMG Health's "ASCs in 2022: A Year in Review" report released Jan. 26.
The top ASC procedure makes up 20.4 percent of total Medicare payments in 2022, according to a Jan. 26 report from VMG Health.
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association released a policy statement backing site-neutral payments as a key focus for saving billions of dollars in the next decade.