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CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. Cristina Bentin, CCS-P, CPC-H, CMA, is principal of Coding Compliance Management. Q: Is it appropriate to report Category III code 0232T,…
Mona Kaul, chief coding and compliance officer of GENASCIS, which provides revenue cycle services and supporting technologies for surgery centers, discusses the following six ways ASCs can better avoid denied claims on spine procedures.
Here are 12 statistics on average hourly salaries & wages, hours worked per case and number of employees in ASCs, organized by type of employee, according to VMG Health's ASC Multi-Specialty Intellimarker 2010.
Every ASC administrator knows infection control is important, but many ASCs still fall down on cleaning their facilities properly and preventing infection. Peter Sheldon of medical facility cleaning company Coverall offers three tricks to minimize infections and increase awareness of…
Chris Squire, board member of Minnesota Ambulatory Surgery Center Association and its government relations committee chairman, discusses five issues affecting Minnesota ASCs.
Sandoz, the generics pharmaceutical division of pharmaceutical company Novartis, has agreed to pay the state of Idaho $1.65 million in a drug pricing lawsuit, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek news report.
A pharmacist from Lyndhurst, N.J., has been sentenced to three years in prison for fraudulently billing the federal Medicaid program, according to a New Jersey Newsroom report.
Pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson has lost a lawsuit in Louisiana that alleged the company made misleading claims about the safety of its antipsychotic drug Risperdal, ending in a $257.7 million loss for the pharmaceutical giant, according to a Bloomberg…
A former otolaryngologist from Merrillville, Ind., has entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors in which he will plead guilty to all counts of healthcare fraud and in return serve four years in prison, according to a Post-Tribune report.