ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

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.

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.