West Virginia lawmakers are studying whether to allow policyholders to require that insurers pay their providers directly, according to a Houston Chronicle report.
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Healthcare providers are increasingly joining a movement to simplify difficult-to-understand patient bills, hoping to increase collections lost when patients do not know how much they owe, according to a Healthcare Finance News report.
Becky Ziegler Otis, RHIA, CPHQ, CHC, administrator of the Ambulatory Surgical Center of Stevens Point (Wis.), discusses how her surgery center decreased days in A/R from around 100 to the industry benchmark of 35-40.
David Schlactus, CEO of Hope Orthopedics of Oregon and Willamette Surgery Center in Salem, shares five strategies he uses to negotiate strong payor contracts for his orthopedic-driven ambulatory surgery center.
The insurance industry is distributing campaign funds to Illinois lawmakers who will participate in setting up the state's health insurance exchange, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
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Clear, enforced payment policies can help physician practices accept patients even when finances are tight, according to an American Medical News report.
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The transition to the ICD-10 medical coding system will increase the number of medical codes from 18,000 to 140,000, mandating significantly more detail for diagnoses and procedures, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Health insurance denial rates routinely exceed 20 percent and are often much higher, according to a Kaiser Health News review of 20 of the most populous states and the District of Columbia.
Jessica Edmiston, coding manager, and Tamara Wagner, coding audit manager, with National Medical Billing Services, discuss eight common coding errors that create compliance problems and decrease revenue for surgery centers.