ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

The ICD-10 delay has dominated the conversation in the coding and billing sector of healthcare. Much activity in the industry has focused on ICD-10 preparation and timeline adjustments, but new partnerships and acquisitions continue to be made as well.

In the midst of implementing a new plan in light of the ICD-10 delay, CodeSmart, an ICD-10 medical coding education and clinical documentation software group, signed three new clients.

The majority, 88 percent, of American Health Information Management Association survey respondents reported "disappointment" in regards to the ICD-10 delay, according to an EHR Intelligence report.

The level of education earned affects salary in many different fields. Here are four statistics on the level of education earned in the medical coding field, according to the AAPC 2013 Salary Survey.

The process of managed care contract negotiations can be painstaking. Orthopedics and spine-driven ASC leaders often need to take an extra step to carve-out adequate rates for the higher acuity cases performed in their centers. Dan Connolly, vice president of…

While ICD-10 is designed to increase coding specificity, there remains a place for unspecified codes in ICD-10-CM, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the latest Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments waived tests, according to an AAPC report.

Here are three ways ambulatory surgery center leaders can work towards overcoming revenue cycle management challenges, according to a MediGain blog post.

More than 60 percent of physician practices responding to a Part B News survey had identified resources, created a project plan and contacted vendors in their preparations for ICD-10, according to a Medical Economics report.

For a busy ambulatory surgery center, trying to become an expert in many different areas is very difficult. This is a lesson we learned within a year of opening.