ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Here are the eight qualities that physicians believe are most important in an insurer, according to the Medscape Insurer Ratings Report 2014.

On Dec. 10, CMS and the American Health Information Management Association will host an ICD-10 preparation webinar, according to an EHR Intelligence report.

Here are eight recent articles on the ICD-10 transition.

Payer relationships with ambulatory surgery centers are making gradual changes as the healthcare system moves full steam ahead toward providing value-based care and reimbursement.

The American Medical Association president Robert Wah, MD, recently made a number of remarks on the AMA's opposition to ICD-10, according to a HIT Consultant report.

There are several key public policy issues that could have an impact on ambulatory surgery center billing and coding next year. Here are five key updates on the PPACA marketplace, ICD-10 implementation and the sustainable growth rate.

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems entered into an agreement with Sacaton, Ariz.-based Gila River Health Care to deploy its solutions — NextGen Ambulatory EHR, NextGen Practice Management and NextPen throughout the organization.

The Maryland Health Care Commission has established the Maryland Health Care Quality Reports website, which offers consumer data on hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and long-term care, according to a Washington Business Journal Morning Edition report.

The Federal Trade Commission has settled with PaymentsMD, an Atlanta-based medical billing company, which used consumers' billing information to access their clinical information, according a Venture Beat report.

How are physician practices handling HIPAA compliance? Here are nine statistics from the NueMD 2014 HIPAA survey.