Category: ASC Coding, Billing and Collections

Although the mean annual wage among healthcare administrators is $122,420, that can vary based on factors including experience and practice setting, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational employment statistics survey.

Here are five payer updates Becker’s has reported on since May 16: 

Here are three notes pointing to payers pushing procedures to ASCs:

Ocala, Fla.-based home health services company Village Home Care, the company’s CEO and two physicians must collectively pay $491,943.44 to resolve False Claims Act allegations for allegedly paying and receiving kickbacks. 

Here are six prior authorization stories Becker’s has reported on since May 11:

Here are six prior authorization stories Becker’s has reported on since May 11:

UnitedHealthcare’s 2023 site-of-service policy, which went into effect April 1, could push procedures to the ASC setting. 

Payers are continuing to look at ASCs as a way to cut costs, leaders said at a March 22 California Ambulatory Surgery Association summit with payers and industry stakeholders. 

While the ASC industry as a whole has opportunity for growth, Raghu Reddy, chief administrative officer of Cumberland-based SurgCenter of Western Maryland, is concerned about the lack of accountability for payers. 

The U.S. sued a plastic surgeon formerly of Tri-State Specialists in Sioux City, Iowa, for violating the False Claims Act.