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…
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…