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Contract Coding
The HRAA coding solution provides hospitals and physicians across the United States with an experienced team of backlog coders to assist facility coding departments or provide outsourcing services. Certified HRAA associates are fully trained in both ICD-9 and ICD-10 platforms and supply hospitals and physicians with medical coding and billing expertise, while reducing the risk of error and maximizing accuracy, efficiency and profitability.
Medical coding is the process of taking information from a wide variety of patient medical records, charts and notes, and converting it into an alphanumeric data set. The data set then drives the payment for the services rendered when submitted to Medicare, Medicaid, commercial payers and other healthcare providers.
Medical coders analyze the documentation maintained within medical records and assign codes that drive reimbursement. Additionally, the data set is utilized as a collection methodology for tracking diseases, quality of care and treatment.
Commencing October 1, 2013, ANY and ALL HIPAA covered hospitals, physicians, outpatient facilities, health plan payers, insurance organizations, Medicare and Medicaid will be federally MANDATED to switch from the code set ICD-9 to the new revision called ICD-10. This will affect nearly every patient in America and have a dramatic effect on the $5 billion medical coding business.
The HRAA coding solution provides hospitals and physicians across the United States with an experienced team of backlog coders to assist facility coding departments or to outsource the project altogether.
Certified HRAA associates are fully trained in both ICD-9 and ICD-10 platforms and supply hospitals and physicians with medical coding and billing expertise, while reducing the risk of error and maximizing accuracy, efficiency and profitability.
Advantages of our complete outsourcing solution include:
- Reduced reimbursement time frame (DNFB)
- Auditing services
- On-site certified and trained personnel
- Offsite coders for efficiency and cost savings
- Minimized coding backlog
- Minimized risk of incorrect coding to reduce immediate rejection of reimbursement submissions, fines, and government sanctions
