ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Cloud-based electronic health record and practice management company athenahealth has acquired Epocrates, a mobile health provider.

The American Medical Association has joined forces with other medical groups to protest the 2014 implementation deadline for providers to switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10, according to American Medical News.

As the number of surgery centers increases across the country, patients, payors and federal agencies may save significant dollars on healthcare, while still experiencing and promoting high-quality medical care, according to an ASCA report on study results from the American…

Non-profit hospitals in the United States tallied $41.1 billion in uncompensated care — the most ever recorded since the American Hospital Association first tracked the data in 1980, according to the AHA's Annual Survey of Hospitals (pdf).

Manitowoc (Wis.) Surgery Center was recently highlighted in the Herald Times-Reporter for providing cost savings to patients in the area.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services updated its policy for coding place of service, according to AAPC.

To reduce medical error and increase reporting each year, an industry shift is needed to make the process less burdensome and secure, according to Government Health IT.

EMH Regional Medical Center in Elyria, Ohio, and North Ohio Heart Center have agreed to pay the government a combined $4.4 million to resolve allegations that they submitted false claims to Medicare.

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 created the Recovery Audit Contractor Program to reduce improper Medicare payments, and since its inception, the program has collected more than $2.5 billion in overpayments, as of August 2012.

Last year, the HIPAA electronic claims standard changed from version 4010 to 5010, and the transition served as a lesson for the upcoming switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10.