BillingTree's 2018 "Healthcare Business Strategy and Technology Survey" revealed healthcare providers struggle with a lack of payment channels and are increasingly adopting payment technologies. Here are seven insights:
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
Sean McSweeney, founder and president of Apache Health, a Los-Angeles based medical billing company, gave four insightful tips on documentation for accurate coding:
Alliance Medibilling CEO Annette Bolcato has 25 years of coding and billing related experience. She spoke with Becker's ASC Review about the challenges industry professionals face and how outsourcing services can help physicians avoid worrying about payer issues.
South Fla.-based ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen, MD, received a 17-year sentence Feb. 22 for stealing at least $73 million from Medicare, the SunSentinel reports.
Few Medicare enrollees use tax-free medical savings accounts that accrue interest and can be used for medical expenses, CNBC reports. Here are four notes:
Mumfreesboro (Tenn.) Clinic & SurgiCenter selected Meridian Medical Management's Meridian Robotics software to automate its revenue cycle management.
Here are four legislative changes impacting the healthcare industry for ASC leaders to note from the past month:
Alaskan lawmakers introduced two bills that would require Medicaid recipients to work to receive benefits, according to ctpost. Here are seven things to know:
The implementation of the Affordable Care Act was associated with large coverage gains in targeted Medicaid expansion groups, including cancer survivors, a study in Medical Care found.
WHO has published a beta draft of the ICD-11 that includes new chapters and changes to code structures, according to ICD10 Monitor. Here are eight insights:
