ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

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."

Ninety-four percent of physicians live at or below their means, according to Medscape's 2022 "Physician Wealth & Debt Report."

In its 2022 "Physician Wealth & Debt Report," Medscape surveyed physicians on their compensation and how they manage their money.

Here are nine recent stories Becker's has covered about Aetna and its parent company, CVS Health, in the last 30 days: 

Eighty-two percent of group practice executives say prior authorization is very or extremely burdensome, according to the Medical Group Management Association's "Annual Regulatory Burden Report."