Editorials & Publications

Effective managed care contract negotiation and renegotiation are essential to an ASC's success. A surgery center can do everything right concerning adding surgeons, case selection, hiring staff, investing in equipment, and all the ...

Mandeara Frye, RHIA, CPC, CPMA, CRC, CASCC, Senior Director, Coding As technology advances, we are seeing more and more devices become available that increase patient safety and physician skill while decreasing the need for invasive ...

When ASCs choose a billing partner, data security usually isn't a reason driving the decision. Rather, it's typically one or more financial objectives (e.g., improving collections, reducing denials, eliminating bad debt and revenue ...

There are many initiatives an ASC's leadership can undertake to help grow their center. Among them: recruiting more physicians and staff, investing in capital equipment, expanding the facility's footprint, adding service lines, ...

By the Surgical Notes Coding Department Coding mistakes can cause a number of problems for ambulatory surgery centers. They lead to increases in denials and wasted time and resources. Downcoding errors can cause ASCs to leave money on the ...

By Randy Bishop, President and Chief Executive Officer, Surgical Notes The end of 2022 is here, so it's time to reflect on the year that was while looking forward to the year ahead. To learn about the 2022 experiences and 2023 ...

By Angela Mattioda, Sr. Vice President of RCM Solutions & Client Experience Want to make 2023 your ambulatory surgery center's best financial year yet? Take these 10 revenue cycle management (RCM) steps and watch your bottom line ...

Follow these steps BY KEN BULOW Noncompliant coding and billing can lead to increased denials, missed reimbursement opportunities and unnecessary refunds. Additionally, poor compliance outcomes harm surgeon and patient satisfaction and ...

ASCs interested in billing commercial or private payers may need a managed care contract. The first step to securing a managed care contract is for an ASC to identify those payers in its market that it's interested in contracting with ...

By Mandeara Frye, RHIA, CPC, CPMA, CASCC, Senior Director, Coding Last month, I shared a series of coding tips focusing on the integumentary system and touching on areas that included skin biopsies, lesion excisions and shaving, wound ...