18 Results for Coding Billing Collections
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Regulatory Affairs: Take Advantage of CMS’ 2025 Changes

By: Jeanine Watson, MSN, RN, CNOR(E), CASC12/04/2024

Well, here we are, approaching the end of 2024. I am surprised at how quickly each year goes by, and how each year seems to go faster than the year before....

Financial ManagementCoding Billing Collections

Is It Time to Outsource Your Revenue Cycle Management?

By: Carina Stanton | Contributing Editor06/27/2024

Is your volume up? Are you adding a new service line such as cardiology with more complex coding? If the demands of revenue cycle management (RCM) are...

Financial ManagementCoding Billing CollectionsCardiology

Cardiology Codes ASC Leaders Need to Know

By: Kristin Truesdell04/02/2024

For 15 years, cardiovascular procedures have been performed in outpatient settings such as office-based labs (OBLs) and ASCs, starting with peripheral vascular...

OphthalmologyFinancial ManagementCoding Billing Collections

Navigating Cataract Reimbursement Challenges: A Guide for ASCs and Surgeons

By: Blake K. Williamson MD, MPH, MS, and Kirk A. Mack​, COMT, COE, CPC, CPMA02/14/2024

As the cataract reimbursement scene keeps changing, surgeons and facility leaders must feel like they’re on a roller coaster they never agreed to ride in the first place....

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OR Excellence Awards: Financial Management: Making Collections a Priority

By: Adam Taylor | Senior Editor09/07/2023

A management change at Waterbury (Conn.) Surgery Center took place in 2021, and it didn’t take long for the new team to identify daily collections as a problem...

Financial ManagementCoding Billing CollectionsBusiness Advisor

Business Advisor: Chase Every Dollar

By: Shakeel Ahmed, MD10/07/2022

When I founded the Atlas Surgical group of ASCs 15 years ago, we outsourced our billing operations. Our collection rate was about 80%, which was acceptable, but not stellar. I came to realize...

Surgical Video and ImagingRegulatory AffairsPatient ExperienceIndustry TrendsCoding Billing CollectionsCardiology

Trend to Watch: ASCs Are Adding Interventional Radiology

By: Joe Paone | Senior Editor10/04/2022

Interventional radiology (IR) is slowly finding its way into ASCs. IR physicians perform a wide variety of “pinhole surgeries” — minimally invasive procedures that leverage catheters, wires, needles and sheaths — using image guidance...

Regulatory AffairsFinancial ManagementCoding Billing Collections

Regulatory Affairs: Proposed Medicare Fare Hike Disappointing

By: Adam Taylor | Senior Editor09/19/2022

As the current U.S. inflation rate approaches 10%, ambulatory surgery centers are already facing financial pressure from expenses for goods and services and staffing costs. So while CMS has proposed an increase...

Patient ExperienceIdeas That WorkFinancial ManagementCoding Billing Collections

Ideas That Work: Call Ahead to Save Time

By: Outpatient Surgery Editors07/11/2022

Patients never like to be surprised on the day of surgery, especially if that surprise is that they owe money. That is why the staff at Eye 35 ASC in Schertz, Texas, has insurance verifiers call all patients prior to...

Patient ExperiencePain ManagementCoding Billing CollectionsOrthopedics

Planning for Success in Total Shoulders

By: Grant Garrigues, MD06/13/2022

Demand for outpatient shoulder replacements is increasing as we continue to see improvements in surgical techniques and multimodal pain management strategies that shorten the length of stay for patients....

Regulatory AffairsCoding Billing Collections

Regulatory Affairs: CMS Reverses Course

By: Adam Taylor | Senior Editor09/15/2021

The 2022 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and ASC Payment System proposed by CMS is filled with changes that are more curious than cause for serious concern. CMS, which ultimately intends to slow...

Financial ManagementCoding Billing CollectionsBusiness Advisor

Business Advisor: The Benefits of a Deep Bench

By: Wendy Stark-Riemer, MHA08/12/2021

if you’re still doing most of your coding, billing and collections in-house and rely on traditional spreadsheets to track metrics that assess your facility’s performance, I feel your pain. That was the situation when I became director...

Patient ExperienceOR ExcellenceFinancial ManagementDiversity Equity InclusionCoding Billing Collections

Live Session: A New Way to Pay for Surgery

By: Outpatient Surgery Editors07/12/2021

Demetrio Aguila III, MD, FACS, wants surgeons to provide world-class care that doesn’t saddle patients with crushing financial debt, and ensures buy-in from the patient...

Coding Billing Collections

Legal Update: Leveling the Payment Field for Surgery

By: William Prentice07/18/2019

Ambulatory surgery center payment rates as a percentage of the hospital outpatient department rates have steadily declined over the years. In 2003, procedures...

Coding Billing Collections

Master Total Joint Bundled Payments

By: Steven Schutzer01/15/2019

Diagnosing patients in need of a joint replacement is a science and implanting prosthetic joints just so is a technical art, but health care is ultimately a business. Transforming diseased joints...

Coding Billing Collections

Get On Board With Bundled Payments

By: Robert Raspa07/25/2017

Get on board with bundled payments. Orthopedics is leading the way in the revamping of reimbursements.

Coding Billing Collections

Coding & Billing: 3 Places to Look for Hidden Revenue

By: Rebecca Geise04/06/2017

Coding & billing: 3 places to look for hidden revenue. You're likely to find income stashed away in these unexpected places.

Coding Billing Collections

Are Bundled Payments Good for Surgery?

By: Daniel Cook01/31/2017

Are bundled payments good for surgery? How to capitalize on the popular payment model that sets a flat price for all the care you'll deliver before, during and after surgery.