Joe Turcotte of Colorado quit his work-from home medical billing job to set out on an estimated 6-million-step journey across the U.S., The Gazette reports.
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Medicare's main trust fund will be depleted by 2026, three years earlier than expected, according to updated projections from Medicare's Board of Trustees, Bloomberg reports.
With the rapid rise in deductibles and co-pays, coupled with declining reimbursement and increased expenses, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) are under great pressure to collect all the money patients owe for their surgical care. Faced with such tight margins, even…
A system error caused Cigna to expose the bank account information of some clients in Asia, Bloomberg reports.
Michael Frey, MD, pled guilty in federal court to receiving kickbacks from a medical equipment supplier and pharmacy sales representative, according to a Nasdaq report.
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A former coding employee accused St. Joseph, Mo.-based Heartland Regional Medical Center of wrongfully firing her for expressing concerns about fraudulent billing practices, the St. Louis Record reports.
Revenue cycle management begins with the patient appointment and doesn't end until every last penny is collected, said former Miami-based Gastro Health CEO Alex Fernandez, MBA, CMPE.
During a speech, President Donald Trump predicted several drugmakers would voluntarily drop their prices by a "massive" amount, Politico reports.
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., introduced the Choose Medicare Act in the U.S. Senate to provide consumers and employers the option to enroll into a newly created universal Medicare option.