The CMS Final Rule added four new procedures to the ASC Approved Procedure List for Medicare patients.
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
HHS' Office of the Inspector General released a report in which they recommended focusing audit efforts on physicians who bill more than $3 million each year to catch more fraud and save Medicare millions annually, according to a report from…
A successful ICD-10 implementation means more than just updating software; thorough training involves understanding the concept of the code set and being able to accurately incorporate it in documentation and billing claims, according to EHR Intelligence.
In a Getting Paid blog post, Rochelle Glassman, president and CEO of United Physician Services, details best practices for improving patient collections.
Surgery centers should be wary of electronic health record systems that promise to code in ICD-10, according to an ICD-10 Watch report.
More than half of physicians who received payment rate information from ACA exchange insurers report those rates were lower than average commercial payer rates offered in their area, according to the MGMA Legislative and Executive Advocacy Response Network's ACA Insurance…
Electronic medical record and billing expert Nitin Chhoda released his tips for medical coders and billers to code and submit accurate claims with minimal errors for optimal reimbursements.
Even some queries optimized for ICD-10 can waste coders' time and decrease productivity, so here are five principles to follow for running better queries, according to an ICD-10 Watch report.
At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference on Oct. 25, I. Naya Kehayes, MPH, and Matt Kilton, MBA, MHA, of Eveia Health Consulting and Management discussed the process of assessing the movement from out-of-network to in-network. and it's impact…
The Medical Group Management Association Legislative and Executive Advocacy Response Network recently launched the ACA Insurance Exchange Implementation Report, which found that 14.4 percent of physicians do not plan participating in new health insurance exchange products, while another 56.4 percent…
