In response to recent complaints, the California Division of Workers' Compensation has begun investigating whether or not claims administrators are accepting electronically submitted medical bills.
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
Health Revenue Assurance Holdings surveyed more than 120 hospitals and health professionals and found 20 percent have not begun education or training for ICD-10.
1. Host additional training. The fast pace of an ASC setting can hurt coding accuracy, said Lolita M. Jones, RHIA, CSS, is an independent coding and billing consultant. Centers may need to do periodic one-hour clinical overview sessions with physicians…
Florida Senate bill 7156 would change the way the state bills counties for Medicaid costs, and could cost some counties up to a million dollars, according to a News-Press report.
Health Revenue Assurance Holdings has named Evan McKeown, CPA, as its chief financial officer.
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1. OIG updated provider self-disclosure protocol. The Office of Inspector General has released updated provider self-disclosure protocol, which is entirely revised from the SDP published in 1998. The protocol instructs healthcare providers what to do if they discover actions violate…
Medicare Advantage plans reimburse providers based on hierarchical condition categories. Here are the "top 10" coding errors for MA risk adjustment, according to an article from AAPC, a professional medical coding organization.
The U.S. healthcare system could save $560 billion over the next decade through enhanced quality reforms and changes to how Medicare beneficiaries receive their care, according to a report from the Bipartisan Policy Center Health Care Cost Containment Initiative.
Valora Gurganious, senior management consultant for Doctors Management: The first and best way to speed patient collections is to avoid that having that patient balance accrue at all. During initial evaluations by the physician, be certain that the staff verifies…
A new partnership between Archer and SourceMedical will introduce more comprehensive mobile functionality to SourceMedical's Ambulatory Surgery Center Software Suite.