Department of Health and Human secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced a proposed rule that would delay the compliance date for ICD-10 from Oct. 1, 2013 to Oct. 1, 2014, according to an AAPC report.
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The California Ambulatory Surgery Association recently held its fourth annual ASC Health Plan Summit, a meeting of ASC leaders and all major California health plans. The event was designed to identify common goals, work through managed care roadblocks and accentuate…
The Vermont Senate could approve a health insurance exchange bill this week, according to a Rutland Herald report.
According to the April 9 proposed rule from the Department of Health and Human Services, ICD-10 diagnosis codes will be required for billing physician services starting Oct. 1, 2014 — one year after the previous implementation date of Oct. 1,…
Maggie Summerfelt, administrator of Advanced Surgery Center in Omaha, Neb., runs a surgery center that performs more than 50 percent orthopedics. Like any orthopedic-driven center, Advanced Surgery Center must focus on negotiating low costs and generous carve-outs in insurance contracts…
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has issued an executive order authorizing the creation of the New York Health Benefit Exchange as a marketplace for consumers and businesses to purchase healthcare plans, according to a Westfair Online report.
Fifty-nine percent of major employers have an account-based health plan option in plan, an increase from 53 percent last year, according to a survey by Towers Watson and the National Business Group on Health and a report in Reuters.
Regent Surgical Health has promoted Andrew Suba, previously the company's front office coordinator, to the role of revenue cycle coordinator.
Some states are beginning to move forward with the health insurance exchange segment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to a Healthcare Payer News report.
Medical records from 315,000 patients containing over 220,000 Social Security numbers are missing from Emory Healthcare, including The Emory Clinic Ambulatory Surgery Center, according to a Dacula Patch report.