ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

The American Health Information and Management Association estimates that another one-year delay in ICD-10 implementation would cost the healthcare industry an additional $1 billion to $6.6 billion, according to a Health Data Management report.

Brian Holland has been named the vice president of operations at MediGain, a medical billing and reimbursement services for physicians, ambulatory surgery centers and hospitals.

Surgery Center Network, a comprehensive network of ambulatory surgery centers, has been added to third-party administrator ENTRUST's list of benefit plans.

Here are five articles on ambulatory managed care contract negotiation challenges and strategies for success.

Nearly half of providers, 45 percent, are concerned about interacting with accounting and billing systems when utilizing ICD-10 codes, according to a HealthData Management report.

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions continues to expand its surgical EHR solutions platform, according to a Zacks report.

The majority of physicians, 89.9 percent, operate a traditional fee-for-service payment model at their practices, according to the Physicians Practice 2014 Staff Salary Survey.

1. The Payments to Ambulatory Surgery Centers report by the Workers Compensation Research Institute examines the variation in ASC fee schedules and payment by state. The sense from reading the report is that the authors of the report perceive that…

Managed care contract negotiations can seem like an uphill battle, a tale as old as time — or that the very least as old as the ambulatory surgery center industry. Adriaan Epps, abeo vice president of practice management, deconstructs the…

The majority of physician practices, 89 percent, agree that their billing and collections systems and processes need to be upgraded, according to Kareo's Black Book Rankings 2014 User Survey.