ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Health Revenue Assurance Holdings has hired Joe Brophy as senior vice president of operations.

U.S. Representative Phil Roe, MD (R-Tenn.) has introduced a bill that aims to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a 15-person panel that recommends spending cuts to Medicare, according to an ASCA report.

Merrillville, Ind.-based Horizon Financial Management will expand its operations and add 216 jobs in the next three years.

GE Healthcare has launched an upgraded version of its electronic medical record and practice management software.

More ambulatory surgery centers are performing orthopedic cases today, and those cases are increasingly complex. With the addition of these cases come new challenges for negotiating payor contracts, but surgery centers can still achieve good rates if they leverage their…

ZH Healthcare has added new features to its ZH OpenEMR Patient Portal to allow for greater communication between patients and physicians.

Direct CONTROL and HTR Business and Technology Services are teaming up to help healthcare organizations become eHealth compliant, according to Pulse IT Magazine.

Conflict is developing between Cincinnati-area employers and physicians over a new health plan designed to save employers money at the cost of hospital balance billing, according to USA Today.

Health Revenue Assurance Holdings has hired Mike Gallagher, MD, as its chief medical information officer.

Here are five tips for billing and coding for spine procedures at surgery centers from National Medical Billing Service's Senior Vice President, Coding Angela Talton.