As a growing, high-tech healthcare solutions provider, AHS regularly shares information about issues impacting specialty physician billing, including radiologist billing, anesthesiologist billing, hospitalist billing, and many others.
We also speak at and attend many physician billing events. You will find the schedule here, plus pictures and videos from recent events.
Radiologists have asked about CT (computed tomography) vs. CTA (computed tomography angiography) coding and billing. Our friends at Coding Strategies, Inc. have described the coding considerations for these important diagnostic imaging techniques. This radiology education is useful for a radiologist and for his or her radiology billing staff. Image post processing and contrast factors are both described.
Dermatology Times recently interviewed Steve Sullivan about the pro's and con's of outsourcing vs. software, both on prem and ASP. Click here for the article.
Steve Sullivan and Bill Gilbert recently contributed an article to ADVANCE for Health Information Professionals. Click here to read the article.
Regulatory Updates
Our friends at Ober|Kaler, a national law firm specializing in healthcare regulatory matters, recently published expert updates on two hot topics for 2008:
To learn more about either of these topics, contact Jim Wieland, principal (410-347-7397, jbwieland@ober.com). Jim is a shareholder in Ober|Kaler and a legal advisor to the company and to HBMA.
