HOSPITAL CODING: MEDICAL CODING FOR HOSPITAL FACILITIES
Some hospitals, specifically, smaller community hospitals and specialty facilities, can find it difficult to hire and maintain a staff of qualified and experienced hospital coders. Therefore, many hospitals are forced to offer huge sign-on bonuses and other incentives in order to hire employees. By outsourcing medical coding services to a hospital coding company, hospitals and other facilities can reduce the costs of hiring medical coding experts as well as reduce or eliminate the other expenses associated with maintaining a staff of coding experts, while benefiting from the experience of certified coding specialists.
Outsourcing hospital coding services to a coding company can be beneficial for a variety of types of hospitals and treatment facilities including:
- Community Hospitals
- Hospitals Located in Rural Areas with Limited Labor Markets
- Privately Owned Hospital Facilities
- Specialty Hospitals
- Large Hospital Networks
Hospital Coding Services from G2N
With the hospital coding services that are available from G2N, a coding specialist company, we maintain a focus on meeting each facility’s specific coding objectives and achieving set goals. We can help hospitals and other facilities to manage their coding services and coding processes. Our certified coding specialists are available to provide hospital coding services on a long-term or temporary basis, and therefore, we are an effective solution to help many hospitals or medical facilities save money and achieve accurate and timely coding for patient records.
With our hospital coding services, we will:
- Focus on minimizing or eliminating Discharged Not Final Billed (DNFB): DNFB can be a big problem for hospitals. With our hospital coding services, we can help hospitals process backlogged coding in order to improve your overall revenue cycle billing process.
- Prevent, reduce, or eliminate coding backlogs: Because we have teams of coding experts available, we can easily adjust the number of coders working on a specific project in order to handle increases in coding without causing revenue cycle delays or backlogs. We can also offer temporary hospital coding services as needed to prevent backlogs.
- Minimize compliance risks and maximize accuracy rates: Inaccurate hospital coding can result in expensive problems for hospitals as well as result in reduced or inaccurate revenue collections. At G2N, our hospital coding experts and coding specialists have the experience and skill needed to deliver accurate coding results. In fact, clients who have audited G2N’s work consistently report 95 to 98 percent accuracy rates.
- Handle coding services for a broad spectrum of medical specialties: The coding specialists at our hospital coding company have the experience and knowledge required to accurately code records for a variety of medical specialties.
To learn more about our hospital coding company and the hospital coding services that our certified coding specialists can provide to hospitals and other treatment facilities, please contact us by phone at 314-835-9311 or by email at info@g2n.org.
More about our Hospital Coding Services
Hospital coding services can offer greater flexibility, improve compliance, increase revenues, reduce delays and backlogs, increase efficiency, reduce costs, and offer a number of other benefits for hospitals and facilities. Because of this, working with a hospital coding company to outsource hospital coding services or to audit and improve your in-house coding department can be an effective step for any hospital interested in improving their medical coding process.
The hospital coding services that are available from our hospital coding company include:
- Hospital coding services for inpatient services
- Hospital ambulatory outpatient clinic coding services
- Hospital coding for emergency departments and emergency medicine physicians
- Hospital coding for diagnostic radiology departments
- Hospital coding for interventional radiology services
- Hospital coding for ambulatory surgery centers and same day surgery programs
- Hospital coding for cardiac catheterization laboratories
- Hospital coding for GI endoscopy services
- Hospital coding for employed physicians
- Temporary coding services for vacations and sick leave
- Backlog coding resolution services
- Coding compliance audits to audit the accuracy of staff coders
- Documentation training services for hospital coding
- Hospital coding “helpline” services