Category: ASC Coding, Billing and Collections

Two physician specialties saw pay declines between 2021 to 2022, according to a new survey from the American Medical Group Association.

 Ophthalmologist Jay Singleton, MD, who owns an ophthalmology practice in New Bern, N.C., is challenging the state’s certificate-of-need laws in a suit that says he can’t perform procedures at his ASC. 

Nine physician specialties saw pay jumps between 2021 to 2022, according to a new survey from the American Medical Group Association.

A California health system and three healthcare providers have agreed to pay $68 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act and the California False Claims Act by submitting or causing the submission of false claims to Medi-…

Seventy-eight people have been charged with the alleged participation in a healthcare fraud and opioid abuse scheme worth more than $2.5 billion.

Here are five key stats about ASC operating expenses from VMG Health’s 2022 “Multi-Specialty ASC Benchmarking Study:”

Mark Spina, director of operations at the Hamden-based Endoscopy Center of Connecticut, joined Becker’s to discuss the importance of ASC ownership as the healthcare industry becomes increasingly consolidated.

Twenty-one physician specialties saw pay increases in 2023, according to Medscape’s “Physician Compensation Report 2023.”

In January, the Federal Trade Commission proposed a rule that would ban noncompete contracts nationwide. Eighty-seven percent of physicians support the rule, according to a report from Doximity.

On June 20, the New York State Legislature passed a bill aiming to stop employers from entering into noncompete agreements with their employees, according to a June 26 post from JD Supra.