ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Clearwater, Fla.-based Pyramid Healthcare Solutions named Kathleen O'Brien, RHIT, as its director of coding compliance.

When ASC coders are coding for drug testing, they need to be aware of the two codes possible and the differences between the codes, according to AAPC.

Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth made public its 2013 PayerView Report, an annual quantitative guide to provider-payer relationships that is based on athenahealth's cloud-based data.

Medicare reported paying $3.4 billion to ambulatory surgery centers in 2011 — the most recent data available — according to the 2013 MedPAC report.

The American Medical Association's House of Delegates convened last week and passed a policy that calls for a two-year implementation period for ICD-10 or ICD-11, according to a Government Health IT report.

eClinicalWorks, an ambulatory healthcare IT solution, announced it signed 1,000 providers to its Revenue Cycle Management service during the first six months of the year and projects $100 million in revenues by 2015.

CMS recently released guidance on how ICD-10 will impact clinical documentation.

CODESMART, a subsidiary of New York-based CodeSmart Holdings, has been named a choice supplier for ICD-10 consulting and education by Amerinet, a company that manages hundreds of healthcare facilities nationwide.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission advised Congress to cut hospital reimbursement rates for procedures that can be performed more cheaply in a physician's office in order to stave off the upward trend in hospital-employed physicians and inflating Medicare and private…

Paying physicians for their performance on quality and patient outcomes has become popular as the industry attempts to bend the cost curve and improve patient outcomes.  But, just because pay-for-performance is widespread does not mean the concept is wholly agreed…