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ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

On Oct. 16, 2013, Senior Manager, Coding & Coverage Access at Specialty Healthcare Advisers a subsidiary of Musculoskeletal Clinical Regulatory Advisers, Carolyn Neumann, CPC, presented a webinar titled "How to Overcome the 5 Biggest Reimbursement Challenges in Total Joint &…

About 60 percent of U.S. companies are self-funded rather than traditional insurance under the ERISA laws, and more are moving towards self-funding because of the Affordable Care Act, said President of Surgical Notes Jeff Blankinship.

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Some of the country's largest healthcare providers have crafted highly organized plans for implementing ICD-10 that smaller providers and ambulatory surgery centers can learn from, according to Healthcare Finance News.

Unemployment numbers for healthcare coders are drastically down from where they were last year, according to the 2013 AAPC Healthcare Salary Survey.

While the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has been ordered to continue processing claims and paying healthcare providers during the government shutdown, a prolonged shutdown period could have disastrous consequences in finalizing the payment rules for next year, according…

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