Category: ASC Coding, Billing and Collections

The growth of ASCs reflects their status as a proven model for high-quality procedures and low costs, but their development faces a considerable obstacle in many markets: certificate-of-need laws. 

UnitedHealth Group, parent company of ASC management company United Surgical Partners International, has continued its growth, both in terms of revenue and number of affiliated physicians. 

Philip Blair, CEO of Surgery Center Services of America, spoke with Becker’s about his ASC companies’ biggest growth targets and why cardiology is so important for ASCs. 

CMS added a Stark law waiver for physician owners of independent free-standing emergency departments that served Medicare patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an article written by three attorneys from the firm McDermott, Will & Emer…

California-based Kaiser Permanente Health Plans is the largest payer in the U.S., covering about 9,257,115 patients and incurring $48.19 billion in claims, according to data published Feb. 20 by Definitive Healthcare. 

Texas ASC leaders are seeing a growing amount of hostile state legislation. 

Texas’ price transparency laws are burdening ASCs, many leaders say. 

Sixty-five percent of physicians plan to continue treating Medicare and Medicaid patients, according to Medscape’s “Physician Compensation Report 2023,” a 6 percent decrease from last year’s report.

Here are five updates about prior authorizations that ASCs need to know:

CMS’ policies have the power to turn the tide of the surgery center industry. Here is how those policies have both helped and hurt ASCs in 2023.