ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Hubert Fu, MD, co-founded Dallas-based Debt M.D., a collection services that aims to bring polite physician bedside manner to the practice of recouping medical payments, according to Healthcare Finance News.

Medicare officials are calling on physicians to be more aware of the billing and coding inefficiencies that cost the healthcare industry billions annually, according to a viewpoint in the Journal of the American Medical Association and reported by Medpage Today.

ASC and surgical hospital billing professionals in2itive Business Solutions, have promoted Billie Reese-Turner from New Project Coordinator to Director of Client Services.

ThedaCare, a community health system based in Appleton, Wis., has chosen Wolters Kluwer Health's ProVation Medical software for cardiology procedure documentation and coding at Theda Clark Medical Center and Appleton Medical Center.

Babak Arvanaghi, MD, launched ASCpro, a regulatory compliance document management application, to automate surgery center administrative tasks and documents.

A significant amount of ICD-10 transition planning should now be complete for small and medium practices, according to the CMS timeline for implementation.

CMS is increasingly relying on its recovery audit contractors to find lost Medicare payments from healthcare providers, and the number of audits increased this past year, with about 90 percent of hospitals reporting recovery audit contractor activity by the end…

Here are five ways ambulatory surgery centers can collect-in-full from in- and out-of-network commercial payors.

Fewer magnetic resonance imaging, computerized tomography and cardiac nuclear scan referrals are contributing to the slower overall healthcare inflation rates, according to AAPC.

According to the Physicians' Top Ethical Dilemmas: Medscape 2012 Survey Results report, 27 percent of physicians would stop accepting insurers that don't pay well, even if it would mean longtime patients would have to quit seeing them.