ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Greg Hackney is the CEO and President of MediGain. He is responsible for planning the company's strategic direction and leading the sales, marketing and financial direction. During his more than 15 years in the industry, Mr. Hackney has experience leading…

The Massachusetts Health Data Consortium has partnered with Edifecs to leverage its Edifecs Collaborative Testing Solution for ICD-10 testing among providers and state health plans.

ICD-10 is about much more than just new codes, according to an EHR Intelligence report.




Healthcare practices can start the year fresh by taking an additional look at security risk analysis methods to make sure all practices comply with regulations, according to AAPC.

In an ICD10 Watch blog post, Carl Natale discusses steps to help physicians assess how ICD-10 will affect their practices.

Here are 15 statistics on surgery center payer mix as a percent of gross charges, according to the VMG Health Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011.

A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on that statute of limitations on ERISA actions found that a health plan can contractually create their own tolling period, which can start prior to a cause of action accruing.

In a Medscape Business of Medicine report, Betsy Nicoletti, a consultant and speaker, discusses actions to take to prepare for the transition to ICD-10 and ways to make the transition easier for a medical practice.

The healthcare BPO market — which includes medical coding, billing, claims processing and more — is expected to be worth nearly $189 billion by 2018, an increase of 10.8 percent from its current value of $92.3 billion.

Massachusetts enacted a healthcare cost control law as of Jan. 1, in attempt to require hospitals and physicians to give patients procedure costs before they decide where to purchase care, according to a WBUR report.