In 2020, claim volume changes, as well as an increase in uninsured patients, have caused ripple effects through the emergency medicine community.

The COVID-19 pandemic has made proactive revenue cycle management and cash flow top priorities for ASCs, according to Regent Revenue Cycle Management, an independent division of Westchester, Ill.-based Regent Surgical Health.

We have all heard the famous but unattributable quote, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

  America's Health Insurance Plans, a health insurance lobby, submitted comments on a CMS proposal that would bring faster Medicare coverage for medical devices, according to a Nov. 2 press release.

Humana's Deputy CMO Brian Powers, MD, shared his thoughts about low-value care in ASCs with Becker's ASC Review.

  Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina and Kansas City, Mo.-based Caravan Health are partnering to support the expansion of the Blue Premier value-based care program to more areas in the state, according to an Oct. 29 press release.

Proliance Surgeons, one of the country's largest surgical practices, entered into a value-based arrangement with Regence, according to an Oct. 29 announcement.

Ahead of Halloween, physician practice coders and billers may want to brush up on relevant ICD-10 codes.

Nearly one-third of full-time billers and coders at physician practices make between $40,001 and $50,000 a year in direct monetary compensation, according to Physician's Practice's "2020 Staff Salary Survey."

Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation Oct. 22 that's meant to curtail surprise medical billing, according to MiBiz.

What do Amazon, Netflix, Google Maps, Spotify, and PayPal have in common? They're all cloud-based services.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare reached a multiyear, statewide agreement with Cigna in Florida, according to an Oct. 21 announcement.

Today's healthcare environment is rife with opportunities for ASCs and hospitals — but these opportunities go hand-in-hand with a number of challenges and implications for the industry's future.

To help specialty practices prepare for changes to evaluation/management office-visit guidelines and pay rates, DecisionHealth will host three virtual summits, the healthcare news source announced Oct. 19.

The American Medical Association identified five health insurers that hold the highest market share in the most markets in its 2020 study on competition in commercial health insurance markets.

The American Medical Association published its annual study on competition in commercial health insurance markets.

Lack of competition is a worsening problem for already-concentrated health insurance markets, according to the American Medical Association's 2020 "Competition in Health Insurance: A Comprehensive Study of U.S. Markets."

Highly concentrated markets for commercial health insurance have grown even more concentrated over the past five years, according to a new study from the American Medical Association.

Bismarck, N.D.-based Mid Dakota Clinic settled allegations that a financial arrangement with its wholly owned ASC violated the Anti-Kickback Statute, according to an Oct. 9 case summary.

For the U.S. and comparable countries, inpatient and outpatient care was the largest category of per-capita health spending in 2018, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of statistics from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.