Payer and employer pressure to lower healthcare costs is accelerating the shift of surgical procedures into ambulatory surgery centers, according to Jeffrey Flynn, COO of Gramercy Healthcare and ...

Procedural coding errors can lead to lost revenue or unintentional upcoding at ambulatory surgery centers. Stephanie Ellis, RN, CPC, is the president and owner of Brentwood, Tenn.-based Ellis Medical ...

When is the last time your hospital, health system or organization looked at codes and clinical documentation to ensure everything was compliant with law and best practices? If revenue cycle teams are ...

A new study suggests "upcoding" practices are growing across outpatient service lines. The report, compiled by researchers at Trilliant Health, found that the share of visits that were coded at higher ...

An opinion forum on recent news and major policy issues. Have a story suggestion? Let us know. Outpatient surgery centers in California face new regulations and oversight under a brand-new law. After ...

Annual analysis points to an urgent need to redefine revenue integrity as proactive protection, while strengthening coding integrity and denial prevention measures. WELLESLEY, MA / ACCESS Newswire / ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . December 2020 saw CMS finalize a proposal to eliminate the inpatient only list in a 3-year transitional period, ...

This article examines how prices, insurer payments, and patient payments for outpatient surgeries differ by site of care and network status. Objective: To examine how site of care and insurance ...