ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

The Colorado Purchasing Alliance created an initiative that allows employers in the state to negotiate lower prices for healthcare services through a cash incentive, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported Nov. 2.

Three ASC leaders joined Becker's to discuss the financial losses providers are seeing in 2022:

Here are three breakdowns of ASC operating costs to know:

 CMS updated ASC payment rates to 3.8 percent in its 2023 "Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System Proposed Rule." 

The Surgery Center of Fort Collins (Colo.) is working on collecting past due bills more than two months after it announced it was closing for good, BizWest reported Oct. 26.

Payers UnitedHealth, Elevance (formerly known as Anthem) and Centene are some of the largest insurers by membership. 

Becker's has reported on three physician or physician assistant fraud cases since Oct. 6. 

Here are five updates from Elevance Health, formerly Anthem, since Oct. 5. 

Prashanth Bala, vice president of ASC operations at Shields Health in Quincy, Mass., spoke with Becker's Oct. 21 to discuss tips for lowering ASC operating costs.

Physician pay is decreasing in four specialties, according to Merritt Hawkins and AMN Healthcare's 2022 "Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives."