ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Revenue cycle and health IT firm Emdeon, based in Nashville, Tenn., has acquired price transparency company Change Healthcare for $135 million, according to a Nashville Business Journal report.  

PGM Billing, a practice management and electronic medical record service provider, launched a CPT code search engine.

Here are the 11 top-rated insurers for the lowest number of denials, according to the Medscape Insurer Ratings Report 2014.

Health information solutions company iMedX has acquired medical documentation companies Superior Global Solutions, based in Plano, Texas, and Medwrite, based in Anaheim, Calif.

Greensburg, Pa.-based Excela Health is partnering with CarePayment to offer patients the option of making their medical expenses in installments.

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.