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.
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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…
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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.
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