Latest Updates on Medical Billing

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ scheduled switch next month to a larger set of medical billing codes could ease Medicare secondary payer compliance for workers compensation claims.“The amount of detail it will provide the workers comp community will…

On Oct. 1, Medicaid programs in California and three states will not be fully converting from the ICD-9 to the ICD-10 coding system, as nearly everyone else is federally mandated to do. Instead, they have received CMS approval to take…

With one month left until healthcare organizations must begin using ICD-10, 57 percent of respondents to a recent survey say they still are not on track to meet the Oct. 1 deadline. Still, 85 percent say they’ll be ready on…

If things are a bit tense in your doctor’s office come Oct. 1, some behind-the-scenes red tape could be to blame. That’s the day when the nation’s physicians and hospitals must start using a massive new coding system to describe…