Editorials & Publications

Revenue cycle outsourcing is surging in popularity among ASCs. Two of the main reasons why: It's become more difficult to run a successful ASC business office, and it's become much easier for a business office's performance to fall off and ...

It's a great time to be an ASC with an orthopedics service line. According to Sg2, a recognized expert in healthcare trends, insights, and market analytics, orthopedic procedures will be one of the specialties fueling growth in ASC volume ...

Cardiovascular procedures are becoming more prevalent in the ASC setting. Below are some of the most common procedures and their coding guidelines. Pacemakers and Defibrillators When inserting or replacing a pacemaker or defibrillator ...

Whether a surgery center performs billing in-house, outsources it to an ASC billing company, or has its billing performed by a management company, there are numerous revenue cycle management processes that must be completed, and each plays ...

Cardiology is one of the fastest-growing ambulatory surgery center (ASC) specialties, and we're seeing the development of new cardiovascular ASCs nationally. Fueling the rise of cardiology in the ASC industry is the addition of different ...

Implants often require a significant investment, and in an ASC, missing an implant payment can quickly turn a profitable procedure into a financial loss. For surgery centers to be able to continue to offer procedures involving expensive ...

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 other ...

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 leakage, ...

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, ...