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ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Though a systemic switch to ICD-10 has been delayed twice, healthcare providers, healthcare plans and clearinghouses around the country are finally saying they expect the October 2015 deadline to be the one that — finally — sticks.

These days, healthcare professionals have to be more than just healthcare professionals, writes Kelli Dame for Fox News. They have to be cybersecruity experts, too.

Office managers, practice administrators, billers, coders and care providers working in small medical practices and billing companies who have concerns regarding approaching HIPAA audits are invited to attend NueMD's series of webinars on compliance.

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Almost 30 percent of hospitals say they are denied for outpatient coding errors, writes Bonnie Cassidy, senior director of HIM innovation for Nuance, for HIT Consultant, and that sort of lack of efficiency can wreak havoc on a company's financial…

While major hacks of retail outlets like Target have made national news over the last year, writes Mark Spivey for ICD-10 Monitor, what hasn't been addressed by the media enough as of late has been the security of medical information…

More than 2,000 people responded to a recent survey conducted by the AAPC regarding CMS' ICD-10 readiness testing. The vast majority — 84 percent — said they'd describe it as a success, reports ICD-10 Monitor.

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