Medical billing outsourcing enables maximum reimbursements for all submitted claims, because the billing is done in a very efficient manner. Efficiency can be ensured only by a reliable and reputable…
There are a whole lot of things jostling for attention among healthcare providers right now, and ICD-10 is one of the biggest. With October 1, 2014 approaching rapidly and many…
Procrastination continues to run rampant when it comes to the ICD-10 transition. The latest evidence comes courtesy of survey results unveiled this week by healthcare revenue IT vendor Health Revenue…
While much has been published about the implementation of ICD-10 for hospitals, the body of knowledge for physician practices and medical groups is sorely lacking. Vendor upon vendor is assisting…
Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) on Wednesday mocked a medical coding system that will soon require doctors to use a giant codebook that includes more than 140,000 kinds of injuries and…
Despite a one-year delay, healthcare providers and payers are still lagging in preparing for the conversion to ICD-10 diagnostic and procedure codes. According to a survey by the Workgroup for…
Ector County Health District officials unanimously passed a measure Tuesday night to fund training to accommodate a switch in the system in which they process diagnosing and procedure codes to…
As U.S. health care providers continue the march toward implementing the ICD-10 — a standardized set of medical diagnoses used by medical professionals across the world — the code set…
Trying to make sense of a medical bill can often be an arduous task. Medical providers don't exactly make it easy to decipher the bills and many of them do…
In an effort to control healthcare costs of the nation's oldest, poorest and often sickest patients, 34 states have implemented or are planning integration programs within the next two years…
In an effort to reduce administrative burdens on hospitals and other providers, CMS has reduced the minimum medical record requests from Medicare Recovery Auditors — formerly known as Recovery Audit…
It’s too much work. It’s too expensive. It’s too confusing. It’ll slow my coders down. With all the fears, complaints, warnings, and dire predictions surrounding ICD-10, it’s easy to lose…
Healthcare vendor readiness is about ensuring vendors can accommodate your ICD-10 needs. There are basically three elements to the assessment: Identify your vendors List and review contracts Evaluate vendor offerings…
In an effort to scale back use of high-priced imaging of questionable value in cancer treatment, Medicare has proposed ending reimbursement for post-treatment positron emission tomography scanning in prostate cancer…
On Oct. 1, 2014 -- just 19 months from now -- the U.S. healthcare industry will begin using a new coding system for the first time in more than 30…
Since ICD-10 implementation affects almost every department in a medical practice or hospital, it's fair to say that it's more than a medical coding problem. There are plenty of challenges…