ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

The death of fee-for-service has been much talked about, but the traditional payment model may have been dealt one of its first significant blows at the beginning of this week. The Obama administration announced plans to dramatically alter the way…

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association recently released prices that its insurers are charged by healthcare providers, in a three-year report that covers the cost of knee and hip replacement surgeries.

A judge dismissed on Friday a putative class-action lawsuit that accused both Sutherland Healthcare Solutions, a medical billing company, and Los Angeles County of negligence after their medical records had been stolen, reports Law360.

At a recent Medical Group Management Association conference in Las Vegas, Health Tech Zone recently asked several EHR vendors what they plan to work on in the gap between Meaningful Use and ICD-10.  

Here are nine statistics on salaries for medical coders in accordance with U.S. region. The statistics are drawn from an annual survey released by the AAPC.

Omega Healthcare says it is planning a surge in hiring this year — estimating 2,300 new employees over the course of 2015.

Most IT departments across the country are saying they aren't ready for the ICD-10 compliance deadline, ComputerWorld.com reports.

A recent poll shows that the majority of hospital leadership is more and more apprehensive about a looming ICD-10 deadline.

Last year was apparently a great year for the Vancouver, Wash.-based BridgeFront, a provider of e-learning for the healthcare industry — they recently announced record growth.

If you think postponing the ICD-10 switchover deadline from Oct. 1 will only affect healthcare providers and software vendors, Juliet Santos of ICD-10 Monitor says, you're wrong — it could affect the safety of the country at large.