Compensation and reimbursement plans vary widely across the healthcare system. Collections-based, dollar per relative value ...

Don’t the doctors know the rules? That’s the question being asked by ASCs these days because a number of claims are still being denied due to the facility billing a diagnostic colonoscopy while the ...

Medical school curriculum is heavy in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, and clinical rotations or clerkships. There is very little, if any, instruction on proper coding and billing for ...

Stephanie Ellis, RN, CPC, is the president and owner of Brentwood, Tenn.-based Ellis Medical Consulting, and Lolita M. Jones, RHIA, CSS, is an independent coding and billing consultant. Here Ms. Jones ...