Here are the anesthesia claims modifiers and guidance for when to report them, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service's Medicare Claims Processing Manual.
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Akron (Ohio) Children's Hospital has received an A1 bond rating from Moody's Investors Service, according to a report from Crain's Cleveland Business.
Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have found that an investigational form of naproxen, called nitric oxide-donating naproxen (NO-naproxen), can block one of the earliest molecular changes that lead to colorectal cancer development while also reducing gastrointestinal toxicity, a relatively…
A Suffolk County (Mass.) Superior Court judge has ordered insurers Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Fallon Community Health Plan to base premium increases off of 2009 rates, rather than higher figures the plans had hoped to use to determine 2010…
Cahaba Government Benefit Administrators, LLC, a J10 A/B Medicare Administrative Contractor for Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee and a Part B carrier for Mississippi, has released a list of the top reason for electronic data interchange claim rejections for the states…
Edward J. Gorz, CPA, accounting manager for MedHQ, a professional employer organization and business office outsourcing service for ASCs and other providers, provides four steps ASCs should take before outsourcing or seeking assistance with administrative services.
Mr. Maerki is the administrator of Bend (Ore.) Surgery Center, a multi-specialty, 100 percent physician-owned ASC. He started his career with BSC in 1997 as a nurse, then nurse manager and now administrator. He previously worked as a telemetry floor…
Michelle Steele is the administrator of Eastside Endoscopy Center in Bellevue, Wash., a three-room GI ASC managed by Physicians Endoscopy. Ms. Steele has been with EEC for 15 years, starting as a charge nurse, before moving into her role as…
From 2001-2010, there were nearly 100 different HHS' Office of Inspector General physician self referral and kickback settlements. In just the last two years (2008-2010) there were more than 20 such settlements. At the same time, there has been an…
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions recently held a hearing on regulating insurance premium increases, and the committee's chairman, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), voiced support for such regulation, according to a report by AHA News Now.