ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

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."

The Texas Medical Association is attempting to modernize state medical practices this legislative session through various billing improvement processes, according to The Texas Tribune.

Ambulatory surgery centers have two main customers outside of the physicians practicing in the center — referring physicians and patients. Great relationships with both of these customers are crucial to an ASC growing and thriving in any community.

The healthcare industry has known since August 2012 that the switch from the ICD-9 to ICD-10 code set would be effective as of Oct. 1, 2014 for all HIPAA-covered entities. However, like many healthcare entities, some ASCs have found themselves…

The hospital and healthcare industry is one of the few industries that still uses obsolete communication technologies, such as pagers, and the cumulative effect of relying on those systems costs the sector $5.15 billion every year, according to a report…

To reach physicians with ICD-10 training, surgery center administrators should create flexible training plans based on physicians' learning styles and preferences, according to ICD-10 Watch.

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago conducted a study to map the impact of the ICD-10-CM transition between clinical specialties, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

St. Louis-based National Medical Billing Services, a national healthcare revenue cycle management company specializing in services for ambulatory surgery centers and their affiliated surgeons, has named a new Senior Vice President, Operations.

The fee-for-service healthcare payment model is contributing to the U.S.'s ongoing spending crisis, as the nation is projected to reach $4.8 trillion in spending over the next 10 years, according to a Huffington Post blog post.

Healthcare legislation and mandates will drive more patients to outpatient settings in 2013 and forced a shift in healthcare costs, according to Healthcare Finance News.