ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Career Step has launched a new ICD-10-focused professional medical coding and billing career training program designed to prepare individuals new to the industry for beginning successful careers in medical coding.

MedKoder has named Angela Audler the vice president of coding education and revenue integrity.

Here are 15 statistics on accounts receivable days based on data from the VMG Multi-Specialty ASC Study 2011 Intellimarker.

Everyone working in healthcare, not just coders, will need to be prepared for ICD-10, according to a recent article in the Journal of AHIMA.

Caramel, Ind.-based Zotec Partners announced its largest acquisition to date with the $200 million purchase of former-competitor Medical Management Professionals, according to an Indianapolis Star report.

There were 9,539 physicians who opted out of Medicare in 2012, however there were still 685,000 physicians enrolled to participate in Medicare last year, according to an article The Wall Street Journal.

In 2012, around 13 percent of the gross dollar volume of all patient payments was made online, according to an Instamed report "Trends in Healthcare Payments Annual Report: 2012."

Timothy Meakem, MD, the medical director of ProVation Medical, recently gave a webinar presentation titled "Utilizing Procedure Documentation to Overcome the Challenges of ICD-10 and RAC." ProVation Medical is a Wolters Kluwer Health documentation and clinical decision support solutions company…

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Douglas Prochnow is a partner with the Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP law firm in Chicago and largely represents clients in healthcare and financial disputes. In 2010, Mr. Prochnow tried and obtained a nearly $3 million verdict for Chicago-based surgical center…