ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

AAPC Physician Services Regional Director and ICD-10 instructor Betty Johnson was recently featured in For the Record magazine, encouraging coders to "bone up" on anatomy, physiology, medical terminology and pathophysiology education for ICD-10, according to an AAPC release.

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Health insurance provider Humana has raised its full-year profit forecast and will begin paying a dividend following lower-than-expected medical costs in the first quarter, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.

Proper documentation training for cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons uncovered $1.5 million in additional revenue at BryanLGH Heart Institute in Lincoln, Neb., according to a Cardiovascular Business report.

The Treasury Department has changed the interest rate Medicare contractors can charge or pay for claims under- and over-payments, according to an AAPC release.

Physicians must upgrade their practice management systems to meet new standards or risk foregoing electronic payments from private insurers and Medicare starting Jan. 1, 2012, according to an American Medical News report.

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Palmetto GBA, the Part B MAC for jurisdiction 1 and 11, has determined thermal capsulorrhapy not medically necessary due to the lack of clinical evidence to demonstrate improved health outcomes, according to an AAPC release.

CMS has published a three-page chart providing coding guidance for Medicare preventive services.

The Arizona Supreme Court will not review a petition from two Arizona ambulatory surgery centers which claim the state's leading workers' compensation insurer broke the law by using an outside vendor to determine what the ASCs should receive for workers'…