In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius 111 members of the U.S. House of Representatives called for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reform the Recovery Audit Contractor process, according to an AHANEws.com report.
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Without explicit guidance, recent reports show newly insured patients may tend to continue to seek care where they have always found it — emergency departments. A blog post from MediGain offers the following suggestions for practices to encourage newly insured…
Billing is an essential part of an ambulatory surgery center's revenue cycle process, but it can be expensive. Here are four areas to focus on that can help reduce the overall cost of billing, according to a Healthcare Finance News…
ICD-10 expenses go beyond just the cost of staff training and new software, according to an ICD10Watch report. Here are 10 business and clinical process considerations healthcare providers should also factor into their ICD-10 budgets.
Providers seem to be more hesitant to learn ICD-10-PCS than ICD-10-CM, even though the procedural codes are more complex than the diagnosis codes and 20 times more complex than the ICD-9 procedural codes, according to an EHR Intelligence report.
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Here are 10 statistics on salary and benefits for medical coders and staff member, according to Medscape's 2013 Clinical & Office Staff Salary Report.
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association showed how complicated the ICD-10 transition will be, according to an ICD-10 Watch report.
With less than nine months left until the transition to ICD-10, it's crucial that healthcare providers have a solid execution strategy in place.
Dual coding may be necessary to help practices implement ICD-10, but it will also cost money and productivity, according to a Government Health IT report.
A transition away from ICD-9 could have been an opportunity to truly adopt a more efficient, more informative data-capturing system, but ICD-10 is far from that, according to Albert Shar, MD, of DOTmed HealthCare Business News.