Latest Updates on Medical Billing

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…

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…