ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Are managed care contracts complicating your ambulatory surgery center's cash flow?

The Utah Valley University Athletics Department has shored up a partnership with the software company Vivature this week.

About 70 percent of households in the United States are struggling with their medical bills, says Hal M. Bundrick, a certified financial planner and regular contributor to MainStreet.com.

One Boston-based startup, CoPatient, has been going a step farther than price transparency — they're processing bills and telling consumers who owes what, reports Med City News.

Stakeholders are at odds over whether the Oct. 1 deadline for ICD-10 implementation should be pushed back, reports the National Law Review, but for the most part, they agree on one thing — if Congress pushes through a bill that…

Though complaints are down in general, consumers who are grumbling are more and more likely to grumble about the way their medical debts are collected, reports Mnetnews.com.

The United States economy could be saving about $375 billion annually if it changed its healthcare and insurance process methods to Canada's single-payer system, a recent study shows, as reported by Science Daily.

Opening a new center is a challenging endeavor, especially if the center is new construction.

Officials with MedAptus, a provider of financial, operational and clinical workflow tools to the healthcare industry, said today they have joined up with athenahealth, a cloud-based services company.

With a looming October changeover to ICD-10 on the horizon, a well-trained group of medical coders will "make or break your transition into this new reality," writes Brad Justus, for ICD10monitor.com.