Indiana healthcare providers have begun using bundled payments with the goal of reducing costs and improving efficiency, according to The Times of Northwest Indiana.
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
The New Jersey Association Ambulatory Surgical Centers has requested that the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance and New Jersey Department of Health investigate and take action against Cigna, according to NJAASC Advocacy & Legislative Affairs Committee Chair Jeffrey…
Plano, Texas-based MediGain has acquired ASC Billing Specialist, a Phoenix-based practice and accounts receivable management company that works exclusively with ambulatory surgery centers, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national coordinator for health information technology, met with a panel of experts this week to discuss the electronic medical record transition and how they may be prompting healthcare providers to bill at higher Medicare fees, according…
The North Carolina State Department of Health and Human Services has enlisted the help of an outside agency to improve its Medicaid system, according to the News Observer.
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In addition to including a slew of new codes, ICD-10 also requires more specific physician documentation, according to Healthcare Finance News.
About 10 percent of healthcare practice owners plan on converting from Medicare providers to concierge or direct pay practices in the next three years, according to Forbes.
Healthcare professionals and ambulatory surgery centers nationwide will be slowly transitioning to the ICD-10 code set in attempts to meet the Oct. 1, 2014, deadline for implementation.
Electronic health records need to become more easy for physicians and patients to use to make the investment worthwhile for practices, according to Healthcare Finance News.
Here are the top 10 reasons why the most commonly billed procedures in ambulatory surgical facilities were unexpectedly denied based on data collected between November 5, 2012 and February 11 2013 by RemitDATA, an independent source of comparative analytics for…