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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.
Medicare Chief Donald Berwick, MD, celebrates his 65th birthday today, making him eligible the federal health insurance program he oversees, according to an NPR report.
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Idaho has avoided a federal takeover of insurance rate reviews, according to a Houston Chronicle report.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has come under fire recently for limiting state workers to one health maintenance organization for each county starting in Jan. 2012, according to a Miami Herald report.
The following article is written by Michael Orseno, revenue cycle director for Regent Surgical Health. Proper billing and coding will help keep an ambulatory surgery center's days outstanding down. Here are a few tips to keep your business office efficient…
Larry Taylor, president and CEO of Practice Partners in Healthcare in Birmingham, Ala., points to five ways ambulatory surgery centers can cut costs.
The number of underinsured adults rose by 80 percent between 2003 and 2010, jumping from 16 million to 29 million, according to a Commonwealth Fund study published in the Sept. 2011 issue of Health Affairs.