Workshop Outlines Ambulatory Surgical Center Billing Requirements

HOUSTON – Ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) must be able to use e-billing, submit clean claims and become familiar with – and then correctly use – the tools available to them to operate successfully under the state’s new ASC guideline, a Division of Workers’ Compensation program specialist said during a workshop meeting on the new guideline Wednesday.Chuck Whitacre told the group of ASC and workers’ compensation carrier representatives that a key to understanding the new guideline, which took effect Sept. 1, is that it is based on Medicare methodologies and...