ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

The Coalition for ICD-10, a group of several healthcare organizations, recently sent House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Harry Reid, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell a letter calling for no further ICD-10 transition delays.

In a letter, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics urged HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell to communicate the need to implement ICD-10 to the United States Congress, according to an AAPC report.

Which payers do providers find to be the fastest and most accurate? The Medscape Insurer Ratings Report 2014 rated 11 major payers on a scale of one (very poor) to five (very good).

MedPro Billing, a medical billing company, plans to hire 50 people to 100 people in the next year, according to a South Florida Business Journal report.

CMS has reminded providers that today marks the first day of an ICD-10 acknowledgement testing week, according to an EHR Intelligence report.

Precyse, a provider of health information management performance solutions, and Vermont HITEC, a nonprofit education center, announced today that they are entering into a partnership for a program that trains candidates as at-home medical coders for Precyse, according to a…

The cost of the ICD-10 transition for small physician practices has been estimated at $105,506 to $22,560, but new data suggests these numbers are much higher than the true cost, according to a Journal of AHIMA study.

SuperCoder's Claim Scrubber for Real-Time Processing now accepts ICD-10-CM codes, according to an Advance Healthcare Network report.

Rhode Island is scheduled to launch its all-payer claims database to the public this year, according to a GovernmentHealthIT report.

Coding and Training Clinicians scheduled two new live virtual courses to start in November.