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ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

The Government Accountability Office released statistics on how the Medicaid electronic health record incentive payments were distributed in 2011, with the average hospital payment at about $600,000, according to Healthcare Finance News.

To avoid the expected 40 percent drop in productivity after the ICD-10 implementation, coders should take note of several important measures of time and cash flow and establish their normal amount of time to code a claim, according to Phys…

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act required rules be crafted and adopted for healthcare electronic funds transfers and electronic remittance advice transactions, and providers will need to be compliant by Jan. 1, 2014, according to Finextra.

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The Surgery Center of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City is making headlines with a unique approach to surgery center billing — an entirely "cash only," free market policy that guarantees rates for procedures, according to an Oklahoma Watchdog report.

Eight states and the District of Columbia have been conditionally approved to run their own state health insurance exchange to open for customers by 2014, according to a blog post by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

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