The House has passed a bipartisan bill introduced by U.S. representatives Wally Herger (R-Calif.) and Pete Stark (D-Calif.) aimed at strengthening anti-fraud measures, according to a news release by Mr. Stark.
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A report released by the National Insurance Crime Bureau has indicated that the total number of questionable medical claims, or suspected fraudulent medical claims, referred to the NICB by its member companies increased 10 percent from 2008 to 2009, according…
The American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and the Colorectal Cancer Coalition have praised the Affordable Care Act provision requiring all new health insurance plans to cover certain preventive services, including colorectal cancer screening, according to an ASGE news release.
Wolters Kluwer Health has announced Goodman Gastroenterology, a GI practice and office-based surgery suite in Chattanooga, Tenn., has selected its ProVation MD software for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding.
Becker's ASC Review has learned of a recent decision in the Illinois courts regarded as an important step forward in ASCs' efforts to achieve reasonable out-of-network payments.
Conservative commentators are surprised by the ferocity of top Democrats' anti-free speech responses to insurers who have been blaming 2011 rate increases on new requirements for the industry under the healthcare law, which begin this week.
AmkaiSolutions has announced the launching of AmkaiOffice for surgical hospitals, also known as AmkaiOfficeSH.
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ASCs sometimes struggle with keeping apprised of changes to accreditation standards as a result of Medicare rulings, so when it comes time for an accreditation survey, ASCs may be caught off-guard by new regulations they did not know were implemented."We…
Here are 30 statistics on payor mix as a percent of gross charges, based on data from the VMG Health Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2010.