The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will be hosting a free health plan identifier webinar and a HIPAA testing pilot in preparation for the Oct. 1, 2014, ICD-10 implementation deadline.
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Louisiana healthcare professionals are suing Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon for an emergency rule created that prohibits balance-billing for patients after natural disasters, according to American Medical News.
As healthcare provider groups fought back against the Department of Health and Human Services warning about upcoding, they contested that more coding does is not the same as coding fraud, according to Fierce Healthcare.
Medical providers can expect more Medicare and Medicaid audits to result from the Affordable Care Act, according to McKnight's.
Ambulatory surgery centers are at risk of losing revenue from performed procedures if the appropriate revenue cycle management principles are not performed and executed for out-of-network payors. Even if out-of-network claims are infrequent, ASCs can reduce their risk of denials…
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Elyse Hartman owns an educational website for current and aspiring medical coders, which can be found at http://www.medicalcodingtrainingcertification.com.
A recent report from the Department of Health and Human Services showed upcoding to be on the rise among physicians, possibly due to an increase in electronic health records, but technology may be more to blame than physicians, according to…
ICD-10 doomsday is Oct. 1, 2014, for physicians, hospitals and all other providers, and CMS is ramping up its guidance on how providers should prepare for the transition.
Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health said is has refunded $865,000 in Medicare overpayments after an audit found more than $1.2 million is overbillings, according to The Sacramento Bee.
The American Hospital Association released a letter this week to the departments of Health and Human Services and Justice fighting back against the departments' allegations that electronic health records may be used for upcoding, according to AHANews.