ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Electronic medical record company athenahealth has partnered with Mashery, an application programming interface, to encourage app developers to improve the company's EMR offerings, according to a Gigaom report.

President Barack Obama's $3.77 trillion budget plan for the 2014 fiscal year, if approved, would raise overall federal spending about 6 percent above the current sequester rates, but it would cut Medicare's budget by an estimated $370 billion through reduced…

Austin, Texas-based MAP Health Management appointed Bill Cox as its director of billing.

Medical Center Health System in Odessa, Texas, will have its ICD-10 code set switch funded by the Ector County Health District, as officials voted unanimously last night to financially support staff training, according to an Odessa American report.

Nearly 30 million uninsured Americans stand to gain coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to a report called "Health Insurance Exchanges: Long on Options, Short on Time," by PwC's Health Research Institute.

Of all the motivations healthcare providers have for switching or adopting an electronic health record, four drivers have the greatest impact, according to EHR Intelligence.

Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Ill., has altered its billing practices for patients covered by State of Illinois health insurance, according to a Quincy Journal report.

Here are six tips from ambulatory surgery center experts on optimizing billing operations and reducing claim denials from commercial payors.

In an effort to reduce administrative burdens on hospitals and other providers, CMS has reduced the minimum medical record requests from Medicare Recovery Auditors — formerly known as Recovery Audit Contractors, or RACs.

When President Barack Obama's budget proposal is released next Wednesday, Medicaid will not be among the many line items to shrink since last year, according to a report by the Associated Press.