On Monday, Connecticut insurance regulators rejected a request by American Republic Insurance to increase health premiums by an average of 35 percent for 117 Connecticut residents, according to a Hartford Courant report.
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Jessica Edmiston is manager, coding, for National Medical Billing Services. Q: Concerning screening colonoscopies, our ambulatory surgery center is having no problem using the -PT modifier for Medicare but third-party payors are not accepting the -33 modifier. Do you…
An Oklahoma Senate bill would update workers' compensation guidelines by requiring physicians to adhere to nationally recognized treatment guidelines and limiting when an injured worker can change from the physician chosen by his or her employer, according to a NewsOK…
State providers and healthcare experts are debating the merits of a bill introduced by Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) that would create a single-payor healthcare system in California, according to a California Heathline report.
Ninety-three percent of healthcare payors have chosen an approach for their ICD-10 migration efforts, up from 75 percent in the third quarter of 2009, according to survey results from The TriZetto Group.
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CPT copyright 2010 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. Paul Cadorette, director of education for mdStrategies in Houston, cites 10 ways coders for ambulatory surgery centers can stay up-to-date…
Health insurers are enjoying a third year of record profits as patients postpone or forego medical treatment, according to a New York Times report.
Gov. Peter Shumlin (D-Vt.) will sign a bill on Thursday that sets Vermont on a path toward a single-payor system, the nation's first state to experiment with such a system, according to a New York Times report.
Anthony Hamm, DC, FACO, has been elected co-chair of the American Medical Association's Health Care Professionals Advisory Committee Review Board, according to a Dynamic Chiropractic report.