Claims Processing
Hospitals looking to clean up their claims management workflow might benefit from a new partnership between Benchmark Revenue Management and Nebo Systems.
While healthcare providers of all sizes grapple with the upcoming change to a ICD-10 and its more robust method of coding medical procedures and care, providers should also prepare for a sobering reality: Coder productivity is likely to drop significantly in the early months of implementation.
Today is the final day of the Healthcare Finance News Virtual Conference & Expo. While there are fewer sessions today, that should provide attendees with the opportunity to come by the exhibit hall to hear about the offerings of our nine exhibitors. Hall hours today are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. CDT.
A company offering Web-based billing management software for small physician practices is looking to boost business with a new infusion of cash.
CarePayment Technologies, Inc., a Portland, Ore.-based provider of financial and patient advocacy services for healthcare providers, has acquired San Francisco-based Vitality Financial, which provides hospital payment solutions to medical providers and patients.
Connolly Healthcare posted approvals Friday for the review of medical necessity for the same 29 MS-DRGs already cited earlier this month by two other Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs).
American CareSource Holdings, Inc., based in Dallas, has added three clients to its portfolio: Caprock HealthPlans, Inc., a Lubbock, Texas-based third party administrator, GreenTree Administrators, Inc., a Beaumont, Texas-based regional third party administrator, and Community Claims Administration, an Orange, Calif.-based third party administrator.
Emory Healthcare, the largest healthcare system in Georgia, is boosting eligibility services at its metro Atlanta facilities to help its growing self-pay patient population obtain healthcare coverage.
For those healthcare organizations that don't yet have a picture of the advantages ICD-10 will bring, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has outlined some of the most important ones.
We recently penned a post, "Should You Outsource Your Medical Billing," which compared outsourcing the revenue cycle management process to managing that function in-house with medical billing systems. Assuming you go for the former option - outsourcing - this post will help you make the right choice of medical billing service companies.