ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

Missed appointments, including no-shows and cancellations, plague every practice, according to AAPC representative Deli Parham, CPC.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has designed the Medicare Summary Notice, according to an AAPC report.

In a recent letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the MGMA advocated a thorough determination of new implementation timelines for ICD-10, according to a Health Data Management report.

Health IT vendors and healthcare providers are far from ready to start using ICD-10, according to a recent study conducted by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange and reported in Health IT Update.

Maryland House and Senate has approved an initial plan for a health insurance marketplace, according to a Washington Business Journal report.

Insurers have recently tried to persuade customers to use less-expensive healthcare providers by promising lower co-payments and other cost-sharing methods for members who choose those physicians and facilities, according to an MSNBC report.

This article was written by Barbara Cataletto, MBA, CPC, Chief Executive Office Business Dynamics LimitedIt is amazing to me that we still have the propensity to lose earned revenues due to customer failures that are the result of our own…

Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire signed into law on Friday that establishes rules for insurers preparing for the state's online insurance exchange, according to a News Tribune report.

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services plans to collect overpayments within 60 days in order to better prevent fraud and abuse, a move that may require practices to maintain patient records for 10 years, according to an AAPC…

Efforts to implement a health insurance exchange in Maine have stalled in the state Legislature, as arguments to overturn the federal healthcare reform law begin in the U.S. Supreme Court, according to an Online Sentinel report.