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- Relative Value Units Can Leverage Payor Payment Increases Written by Heather Linder | February 11, 2013
- Using Bundled Payments in Orthopedics to Begin Developing a Center of Excellence Written by Sabrina Rodak | February 06, 2013
- Obama Won't Cut Medicaid, More Willing to Budge on Medicare Written by Bob Herman | February 04, 2013
- Government-Sponsored Health Plan Enrollment Picks Up Steam Written by Jim McLaughlin | January 31, 2013
- 10 Ways to Negotiate Better Rates for Orthopedics Cases in ASCs Written by Laura Miller | January 28, 2013
- Common Coding Mistakes for Orthopedic & Pain Management in ASCs Written by Heather Linder | January 24, 2013
Billing & Coding
Healthcare providers can use relative value units to estimate whether payors are appropriately reimbursing procedures and to secure better future payments, according to American Medical…
This week, CMS issued its annual Medicare Recovery Auditor report (pdf) to Congress, confirming that recovery audit contractors collected $797.4 million in overpayments from hospitals…
Bundled payments are part of new reimbursement models under healthcare reform that pay a lump sum to healthcare providers who share the risks and benefits…
HHS and the Internal Revenue Service have proposed rules on the health law's individual mandate, which clarify wider protection from the penalty tax for the…
A top economic adviser within the White House has said President Barack Obama will not make any federal Medicaid cuts in his upcoming budget proposal,…
CMS has announced that more than 500 healthcare organizations will start participating in its Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative.
For every commercial member gained by the top seven health insurers since December 2011, five government-sponsored members were added, according to a report by Mark…
More ambulatory surgery centers are performing orthopedic cases today, and those cases are increasingly complex. With the addition of these cases come new challenges for…
Procedural coding errors can lead to lost revenue or unintentional upcoding at ambulatory surgery centers.