The ASC Medicare Payment System - Billing Quandaries and Words of Wisdom  

Like all things in life, something new takes time to comprehend and understand.  The new Medicare ASC payment system is no different.  As ASCs want to continue their streamline of revenue from payors for services they provide, it becomes imperative for business and coding staff to learn the "in's and out's" of ASC coding rules and claim form processing to maintain that continuous revenue.

One item we must consider and often do not think of is the processing of claims for this new payment system from the fiscal intermediary aspect.  In a recent audio teleconference provided by Medicare for ASCs, it was noted that questions from ASC billing and coding staff were not easily answered by the Medicare staff, and many times they had no answer at all.

Coding is coding and submitting a claim form for payment is an easy process, right?    We should thin...