ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

President Barack Obama is returning to Washington, D.C., today, cutting short his holiday vacation, to prompt further negotiations to avoid the fiscal cliff. However, senior officials in both parties are beginning to resign to the fact a deal to avoid…

Farzad Mostashari, MD, the Obama administration’s coordinator for health information technology, urged medical software vendors and caregivers to step up patient safety reporting and avoid faulty electronic records, according to HealthcareIT News.

Electronic medical records may not be solely to blame for higher emergency room bills, according to MedPage Today.

Here are 17 statistics on compensation for professionals in the medical coding industry, according to a 2012 AAPC survey.

More than 500 members of the American College of Medical Coding Specialists have joined the American Health Information Management Association, according to DotMed.

Physicians and practices to should prepare to track how changes in the diagnosis codes from ICD-9 to ICD-10 will affect payment policies and fee schedules, according to ICD-10 Hub.

A billing error has come to light for several 2009 procedures at the University of Toledo Medical Center in Ohio, according to the Toledo Blade.

Here are seven simple ways to prepare your ambulatory surgery center and staff for the ICD-10 switch in 2014.

More ambulatory surgery centers are looking to partner or be acquired by hospitals, as payor reimbursements ratchet down and out-of-network becomes an increasingly infeasible strategy, according to an NJBiz report.

Four office workers at a Buena Park (Calif.) surgery center were sentenced Thursday to prison terms on tax-evasion convictions and ordered to pay millions in restitution, according to an Orange County Register report.