ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Pyramid Healthcare Solutions, a revenue cycle management company, has hired two senior-level executives.

A Metairie, La., physician pleaded guilty to the U.S. Attorney's Office for fraudulently billing Medicare and Medicaid, according to WWLTV.

More than a quarter-million Medicare beneficiaries in Washington had their identities stolen, and the government said it won't issue new IDs, according to Press Connects.

Juergen Fritsch, chief scientist at Franklin, Tenn.-based M*Modal, and his colleagues developed natural language understanding technology for healthcare to help computerized systems turn spoken and typed words into structured data, according to Healthcare IT News.

Bundled payments may lead to reductions in healthcare spending without affecting quality, according to a recent report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Treating those with traumatic injuries costs $67.3 billion annually, and costs continue to rise, according to the Austin Statesman.

The electronic health record vendor Allscripts may be looking for a buyer, according to Healthcare Finance News.

Warren, N.J.-based AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions has released its InfoEdgeBI platform to assist with hospital billing and coding.

The American Hospital Association praised the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ proposed interim final rule for administrative claims processing for electronic transactions, according to Modern Healthcare.

The Office of the Inspector General will be upping its scrutiny of hospital billing practices, as per its 2013 work plan, according to FierceHealthcare.