by Outsource Strategies International | Posted: Oct 1, 2015 | Industry News, Resources
The ICD-10 medical coding is getting implemented today and implementation date is here and now there is no way of avoiding it. From today on physicians and hospitals across the country will have to start using the new medical coding system to describe patient visits...
by Outsource Strategies International | Posted: Sep 30, 2015 | Industry News, Resources
The long awaited ICD-10 Implementation has now arrived. The coding aspect of any practice is usually resource sapping, and that’s because there is a significant amount of effort and attention to detail required in assigning the right codes. That is more so when...
by Outsource Strategies International | Posted: Sep 15, 2015 | Industry News, Resources
Last year, we discussed the October 2013 ICD-10 Readiness Survey by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) and found that the healthcare industry was not prepared for ICD-10 compliance. Now, the June 2015 ICD-10 Industry Readiness Survey by WEDI gives us...
by Outsource Strategies International | Posted: Aug 18, 2015 | Industry News, Resources
This July, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed changes to the home health prospective payment system (HHPPS) for the calendar year 2016, which will have a significant impact on home health care billing and for medical billing companies that...
by Outsource Strategies International | Posted: Aug 11, 2015 | Resources
With the rise in the number of patients with high deductibles, it is crucial for physicians to collect out-of-pocket payments to prevent accounts receivable from going overdue. Having an effective self-pay patient collection policy is an important cog in the revenue...