Latest Updates on Medical Billing

ICD-10 has been a coding conversation. I think it needs to be a documentation conversation. With less than a week until the long awaited—and for many, feared—deadline to ICD-10, reactions are at fever pitch. But as we enter the final…

ICD-10 is just a few weeks from “going live.” If your implementation plan involves using the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) General Equivalence Mappings (GEMs) to “translate” your most common ICD-9 codes to ICD-10, you should (quickly) adopt…

It was only about 10 minutes into the game when I fell on the soccer pitch this summer and tore a ligament in my knee. My subsequent trip to the hospital garnered me a specific diagnostic code that went to…

Mednax, a medical group based in Sunrise, announced that its affiliate MedData has acquired Texas-based Alegis Revenue Group, a national hospital billing management company. The purchase price was not disclosed. Alegis, of Woodlands, Texas, manages more than $3 billion in…