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ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Access MediQuip, a surgical and implant management company, has expanded its national contract with WellPoint, a health benefits company that includes more than 36 million members.

CMS released updated procedure files for ICD-10-PCS, including an updated "Official ICD-10-PCS Coding Guidelines" document and new code tables and index that add four procedure codes for new technologies.

Small surgery centers and healthcare practices face all of the same challenges for ICD-10 implementation as larger practices without the same resources. Here are five considerations for small surgery centers as they move through the implementation timeline, according to EHR…

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Billing and coding operations at ambulatory surgery centers are rapidly changing. ASCs may need to evaluate and update certain practices to stay relevant, compliant and profitable.

At the Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago May 10, Vince Pryor, CFO of Edward Hospital in Naperville, Ill., and Bruce Shapiro, senior vice president of operations at The CCS Companies, parent company of CCS Revenue Cycle Management, discussed…

The American Medical Association has been a staunch critic of the healthcare industry's ICD-10 timeline, and according to a report from AMA's board of trustees, moving directly from ICD-9 to ICD-11 is also "fraught with its own pitfalls."

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