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Ground Ambulance Transports Coverage Requirements

All of these coverage requirements apply to ground ambulance transports: The Transport Is Medically Reasonable and Necessary A medically reasonable and necessary ground ambulance transport must meet these requirements: Medical necessity is established when the patient’s condition is such that the use of any other method of transportation is contraindicated. In any case in which […]

Ambulatory Surgical Center Terminated Procedures

Ambulatory Surgical Center Terminated Procedures The following guidance determines the appropriate ambulatory surgical center (ASC) facility payment for a scheduled surgical procedure that is terminated due to medical complications, which increase the surgical risk to the patient. Payment is denied when an ASC submits a claim for a procedure that is terminated before the patient […]

Understand Payment Rates and Basics of ASC Billing

Basics of ASC Billing The Basics of ASC billing encompass the financial processes associated with Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASCs). CMS defines an Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) as a facility that provides outpatient surgical services to patients. ASC is a facility that, very simply, specializes in outpatient procedures. Procedures at an ASC are more extensive than […]

Prominent Ambulatory Surgery Center Medical Billing Functions are Affecting Your Practice Revenue

Compliance guidelines that govern the Ambulatory Surgery Center’s reimbursement are wide-ranging, complex, and ever-changing. Hence, it’s important for ASCs to hire or partner with Ambulatory Surgery Center medical billing and coding management consultants who understand the legal rules placed on ASCs, including specialized coding, accreditation, documentation, and reimbursement care contracts. Here are Prominent Ambulatory Surgery […]

ASC Medical billing and coding: The fastest growing Healthcare service!

The Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) as a healthcare service market has grown rapidly in recent years. As insurance limitations get more stringent and health costs increasing by the day, more and more people are now turning to the outpatient facilities for quality surgery at affordable rates. Outsourcing your ASC medical billing and coding helps you […]

How Your AR Determines Your Ambulatory Surgery Center’s Financial Future

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AR is the average number of days it takes practice to collect payments due. This metric provides valuable insight into the overall efficiency of your revenue cycle. A lower AR implies faster payment—a necessity in today’s self-pay and high-deductible health plan environment. Physicians need to collect every dollar that’s due to them as quickly as […]

All-in-one solution for your Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC)

There are over 5,400 surgery centers. Available physicians are limited and hospitals continue to pose a strong competition – sometimes partnering with ASC. Ambulatory Surgical Center will need to excel in a single specialty and run a very low-cost center model to sustain in the future. By 2022, healthcare industry revenue is forecast to grow […]

Maximize the Value for Your Ambulatory Surgical Center in 2018

The ambulatory surgical center was invented about four decades ago. The centers have proven exceptional abilities to improve customer care and quality facility which have been provided along with simultaneously reducing the costs. With the time when the majority of the shift witnessed in the healthcare industry with the technology advancement which is expensive; ASCs […]

4 Common Misconceptions about Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASC)

Ambulatory Surgical Centers or ASCs as it is commonly called were first established in Phoenix, Arizona in 1970 by two physicians who wanted to provide comfortable care to the people in their community so that they could avoid more impersonal venues like hospitals. Slowly over the years with Medicare approving payments to ASCs they have […]

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