Proper billing and coding is essential for radiologists' practices to thrive, but the process can be time consuming and confusing, according to Diagnostic Imaging.
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released an ICD-10 planning checklist for payors and providers in the middle of the transition or just beginning.
The federal government is making a push to get 1,000 designated "critical access hospitals" and rural hospitals to adopt electronic health records and achieve meaningful use by 2014 by spending $30 million, according to Information Week.
CMS has issued its scheduled quarterly update for ASC rates of certain drugs and biologics, according to an ASCA report.
A Portland, Maine, physician has agreed to pay $321,000 to settle false billing claims for federal healthcare programs, according to Sea Cost Online.
Advertisement
At the 19th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Lisa Rock, President of National Medical Billing Services, will give a presentation titled "Handling of Out-of-Network Successfully From a Billing and Coding Perspective."
The Department of Health and Human Services recently sent letters to providers notifying them that MaineCare will no longer reimburse for ambulatory surgery center services, according to a Kennebec Journal report.
More payors are introducing bundled payment programs, giving surgery centers and hospitals the ability to accept a pre-determined rate for a procedure in exchange for higher volume from the payor. In this scenario, the payor and the facility also work…
Using observation units more efficiently could save hospitals $4.6 million annually and $3.1 billion nationally, according to Healthcare Finance News.
Verizon's Enterprise Solutions group has created a cloud service portfolio that will meet HIPAA requirements for safeguarding electronic health information, according to HealthcareIT.