ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

ASCs are historically reimbursed at lower levels than hospital outpatient departments, and as operating costs soar, many leaders are worried about how low reimbursements will affect their ability to meet margins. 

Outpatient visits are being billed at increasingly higher levels, according to a Feb. 27 analysis from the Peterson Foundation and Kaiser Family Foundation. 

The American Hospital Association is asking the FTC to withdraw its proposal to ban noncompete agreements. 

CMS is proposing to streamline and improve prior authorizations with new and added rules, according to a Feb. 21 Kaiser Family Foundation report. 

Pensacola, Fla.-based Timothy Ramsden, MD, has agreed to settle his alleged violation of the Controlled Substances Act with a $190,731 fine, the Justice Department said Feb. 22. 

Medscape laid out physician compensation stats for physicians under 40 in its "Young Physician Compensation Report 2022."

As healthcare increasingly consolidates, smaller ASCs are having trouble meeting margins. 

Joe Peluso, administrator at Aestique Surgery Center in Greensburg, Pa., recently connected with Becker's to discuss seven ways to address healthcare costs.  

Here are five policy moves dealing with noncompetes from the last year that ASCs need to know:

The CEOs of Cigna and Centene were named some of healthcare's most "overpaid" CEOs, based on the most recent annual report from nonprofit shareholder advocacy group As You Sow.