ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

AHIMA and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services responded to the American Medical Association's criticism of the ICD-10 implementation, according to EHR Intelligence.

Electronic health record and practice management company athenahealth is teaming up with MedOasis to provide anesthesia-specific billing services, according to the Fort Mill Times.

Health Systems Management Network created a physician clinical documentation ICD-10 and hospital ICD-10 specialty practices to address the gap between coders and physicians, according to Healthcare Finance News.

To be more proficient at ICD-10, coders should focus on a few techniques, according to ICD-10 Watch.

In late October, QSE Technologies in Englewood, Colo., announced it had joined 3t Systems, a complete IT services company based in Greenwood Village. The two companies, though different, bring essential services to the integrated organization: QSE Technologies specialized in IT…

The American Academy of Family Physicians is the latest organization to join the American Medical Association and other physician groups in protesting the implementation of ICD-10, according to the Journal of the American Academy of Physicians Assistants.

Kathy DeVault, manager of professional practice resources at AHIMA, encourages practices to begin training coders and billers now on ICD-10 because of the amount of codes to learn, according to EHR Intelligence.

Some critics of ICD-10 maintain that the medical industry should bypass the 22-year-old code set for ICD-11, but the older system may actually be more beneficial for providers, according to ICD10Watch.

A KLAS Research survey showed hospitals have relied heavily on outsourcing for medical record coding, but third-party reliance is expected to decrease in the future, according to Information Week.

Here are 36 statistics on surgery center accounts receivable, according to VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011. Note: All numbers are averages.