Medical coding jobs are in high demand, as illustrated recently by 700 people vying for 10 open positions at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., according to a Vermont Public Radio report.
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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.
Newton (Kan.) Medical Center has adopted ICA's CareAlign interoperability platform to allow for the exchange of continuity of care documents by cross-enterprise document sharing.
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.
Dignity Health and Optum have formed a joint venture to provide better revenue cycle management services to healthcare organizations.
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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…
According to a Health Affairs study, per capita spending on employer-sponsored insurance for people under 65 grew at historically slow rates from 2007 to 2011, averaging 4.9 percent annually.
Professional medical coders and billers will earn more money through holding more specialized credentials, according to the 2013 AAPC Healthcare Salary Survey.
The number of healthcare coders and billers working at small, solo group practices has been slowing declining, but salaries within different organizations has remained close, according to the 2013 AAPC Healthcare Salary Survey.