WEST BURLINGTON — Effective Nov. 1, Great River Health's medical coding will be outsourced to another company, impacting 35 employees between the health system's West Burlington and Fort Madison ...

Medical coding is a complex yet essential part of any health care facility. The impact of inaccurate coding can directly impact revenue cycles, compliance and patient care. Fortunately, errors can be ...

Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth is eliminating 30 medical coder positions and will outsource some of these services to T-System, a Dallas-based company that provides emergency room documentation, ...

Jul. 31—NEW LONDON — Lawrence + Memorial and Westerly hospitals will outsource medical coding services in a cost-cutting move that will affect some two dozen employees. Yale New Haven Health, which ...

In a Huffington Post article, Tom Lowery, an entrepreneur, writer and corporate training specialist, lays out eight reasons outsourcing medical billing services can help a healthcare organization. 1.

Currently, the healthcare system is witnessing a rise in outsourcing of medical billing services by hospitals and physicians due to obligatory implementation of the complex ICD-10 coding system, ...

The majority of solo and small physician practices, 90 percent, that have in-house billing and collections plan to outsource most or all of their medical billing services within the next two years, ...

A survey of 650 hospital leaders by Black Book Rankings has found that 47% expect to outsource their coding efforts by Oct. 1, 2015, the deadline for switching from ICD-9 to ICD-10. 19% are already ...

Rural/Metro is eliminating an undisclosed number of coding, billing and collections jobs as it outsources those divisions to two other firms. The Scottsdale-based ambulance and fire-protection company ...

When it comes to medical billing, healthcare providers always have an option either to operate an in-house department to take care of the billing procedures or simply outsource it to a third party.