FAQs on Outsourcing Medical Coding Services

Outsource medical coding to MedBillingExperts and benefit from the expertise of our AAPC certified coders who can enhance your code selection accuracy through their extensive domain experience.

Precise medical coding services can substantially boost your medical billing returns and minimize claim denials and rejections. Outsourcing medical coding services can result in error-free claims for you. Outsourcing medical coding services to MedBillingExperts can significantly hike your revenues.

Our medical coding experts have tremendous coding experience in both diagnostic (ICD codes allotted to physician’s diagnosis) and procedural (CPC and HCPCS codes allotted to medical procedures, devices and modifiers) medical coding. At MedBillingExperts we deliver superior medical coding services in the shortest turnaround time.

In addition, we have the capability and resources to deliver the following services:

• Compliance audits
• Claims rejection assessment
• Coding and reimbursement education
• Coding support through e-mail and telephone

Yes. Every AAPC (American Academy of Professional Coders) certified coder on our staff team has a minimum of 4 years of specialty healthcare domain experience. We have multiple medical coding teams, each equipped with specific skills and expertise in different specialized healthcare areas such as pathology, obstetrics, surgery, anesthesia and orthopedics etc.

In addition, our medical coders have knowledge of state-wise differences in Local Medical Review (LMR) policies. Hence, while preparing medical coded claims, we refer to location-specific, authentic LMR manuals which are accessible online.

All our medical coders possess AAPC and the latest HCPCS certifications in addition to a minimum medical coding experience of 4 years.

As per the OIG, coding errors, security, systems integrity and misrepresentations are just a few of the common risk areas of medical coding. The most common causes of medical coding errors that we have learnt through experience are:

• Assigning codes
• Sequencing codes
• Modifying codes
• Adding modifiers
• Changing codes
• Linking codes
• Correcting codes

• Our staff is imparted training on the coding risk areas
• We have multiple coding teams with varied domain specializations
• We strictly align codes with the customer profile and consistently deliver over 98.5% accuracy
• Our systems are HIPAA compliant and secured through passwords
• All mails are password protected too
• Our analysis system tracks every physician’s documentation
• We list documentation deficiency errors physician-wise and inform them about the estimated revenue loss

Yes. Our AAPC certified coders have adequate experience of working on medical coding software such as Edit Pro, CPT 2005, Flash Codes and ICD Books. If you use any other software for medical coding then we can train our coders to use your software.

Yes. At MedBillingExperts, we deploy special efforts to ensure security and privacy of your valuable information. Password protection for all systems and e-mail; HIPAA compliance; Signing of NDAs (Non-Disclosure Agreements) with customers and employees; and Secure VPN firewalls for remote access are some of the key security measures we deploy.

• First fill-up our inquiry form. We will contact you within 24 hours through phone or e-mail.
• We will then analyze your requirements and make cost estimates. You may carry out reference checks with our customers to ascertain our service quality.
• We conduct a free trial. On confirming your satisfaction with our services, we create an agreement and begin operations.
• We then deliver a pilot phase to jointly resolve issues, if any, and improve the results further.

Through our years of medical billing experience, we have devised a method to minimize denials and enhance revenue. Our specially developed software scans your reports and rectifies them resulting in a 20% revenue hike.

If you are seeking the flexible medical coding services of the highest quality, look no further! Outsource to MedBillingExperts. Learn more about our key strengths, services infrastructure, competitive rates and benefits.

Contact us today to outsource your medical coding services. Please fill up our inquiry form and our client engagement professionals will contact you within 24 hours. Outsource medical coding services to MedBillingExperts and gain a sharp competitive edge.

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