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St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston recently notified 6,831 patients that their billing information may have been compromised, after an individual found receipts for payments made by five patients at the hospital's surgical day center blowing through a nearby field,…

The extension of the ICD-10 implementation deadline may not mean much for healthcare providers, according to an ICD 10 Watch editorial.

The following data, from the National Hospital Discharge Survey, reflects the expected hospital payment source in different regions of the United States. Expected payment source is the type of program or insurance that, upon admission to the hospital, was expected…

Open Health Market, a website that was founded to serve as a "matchmaker" between self-insured businesses and healthcare providers, expects to post its first requests next week, according to a Boston Globe report.

Here are five recent payor disputes involving ambulatory surgical centers, according to various news reports.

Dan Connolly, MHS, ARM, vice president of payor contracting for Pinnacle III, discusses five mistakes surgery centers make in payor negotiations.

The Surgery Center of Oklahoma recently publicized its prices for common surgical procedures, according to a Daily Markets report.

ICD-10 may have a new deadline, as HHS released a proposed rule (pdf) today that would delay the compliance date of ICD-10 from Oct. 1, 2013, to Oct. 1, 2014.

Minnesota is making progress with its health insurance exchange, according to a Duluth News Tribune report.

CPT copyright 2011 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. Editor's Note: This article by Paul Cadorette, director of education for mdStrategies, originally appeared in The Coding Advocate, mdStrategies free monthly…