ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

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.

A county in Michigan is mulling the idea of joining up with Concierege Corrections in order to save money on jail costs, the Ogemaw County (Mich.) Herald reports

The postponement of the ICD-10 compliance deadline until Oct. 1, 2015, could have allowed software vendors more time to come out with new products, writes Avery Hurt for Diagnostic Imaging.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommended ambulatory surgery centers receive no updates to their facility fees in 2016, according to an Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society report.

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.