Emergency medicine profit margins are thinning. Successful emergency medicine practices know that their medical coding quality can impact the quality of their bottom line. With Aviacode as your emergency medicine coding partner, you’ll have our experience, technology, quality and commitment working for you.
To make money in emergency medicine, you have to follow the (coding) rules.
Health insurance companies have made it difficult to turn a profit in the emergency department (ED). There are pages of rules governing what ED doctors can and cannot bill. And the rules change by the payer.
Coding is at the root of the problem. Misunderstanding of coding rules leads under-coding and losing the opportunity to bill for full payment. While hiring an in-house coder may seem like an obvious solution, emergency medicine practices that do so take on the added expense of wages and benefits, plus training, equipment, supplies and infrastructure.
Successful emergency medicine practices are turning to outsourced coding agencies like Aviacode, giving them instant access to coding experts who can provide their practice the reimbursement it deserves.
Aviacode is the smart choice for emergency medicine coding.
If you’re ready to find an emergency medicine coding partner, there are many reasons to make Aviacode your first choice:
- We have a proprietary remote coding system—ProCoder™, a flexible remote coding platform that helps you see consistent, reliable and predictable coding results.
- We employ experienced emergency medicine coders whom we constantly challenge to code at a high degree of productivity and compliance. We pay our coders by the record and ensure they meet high quality standards.
- We help improve clinical documentation by alerting practice managers and doctors of specific ways their documentation practices can be corrected to improve reimbursement and compliance.
- We avoid common emergency medicine coding errors, including errors arising from common documentation exclusions and unbundling:
- Common documentation mistakes: For items such as bedside ultrasounds, fractures and supervisory work—to name a few—documentation must be worded in a certain way.
- Unbundling: Certain types of care cannot be ascribed to emergency physicians, whether it be care typically performed by a nurse or care that isn’t allowed in a critical care setting.
- We provide quality, consistent results. Aviacode’s coding auditors, ProCoder coding references and in-house coding experts help ensure the coding we provide you is consistently excellent.
Aviacode has been a pioneer in remote coding since 1999. Trust Aviacode for your emergency medicine coding.