ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

CMS announced the daily coinsurance amounts for 2014 will be $304 for a beneficiary's 61st through 90th day of hospitalization (days one through 60 are fully covered), $608 for lifetime reserve days — the extra days Medicare will cover with…

CMS released a list of tasks to be accomplished in the remaining months before ICD-10 goes into effect.

Now that the ICD-10 transition is roughly a year away, it is vital for HIM directors, CFOs, CIOs and other healthcare leaders to understand not only how it will affect their organizations, but how to prepare for the transition in…

In a Diagnostic Imaging article, Shelly K. Schwartz lays out three benefits of transitioning to ICD-10 for medical practices.

Nuance Communications' Clintegrity 360 system now has improved clinical documentation improvement and computer-assisted coding available in one process, according to a Healthcare IT News report.

At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on October 26, Paul Cadorette, director of educational services at mdStrategies, discussed important changes in coding and billing over the next year.

At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 26, Carolyn Neumann, CPC, senior manager of coding and coverage access for Specialty Healthcare Advisers, shared the 10 biggest reimbursement challenges facing ASCs that do minimally invasive spine…

At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 24, Kelly Webb, vice president and general manager of MediGain's ASC billing division, spoke about challenges ASCs are facing in reimbursement.

Medicare recovery audit contractor audits can be devastating for surgery centers, according to Stephanie Ellis, RN, CPC, owner and president of Ellis Medical Consulting.

Ambulatory surgery centers can lose money and face compliance issues if they don't avoid these billing issues.