Coding Growth Strategies

**Coming Soon**

I’m very excited about another service we will soon be offering. We have had hundreds of people inquire about how to obtain a ‘friendly audit’ for their practice. Most of these audits tend to run $500-$1000 or more for such a service. We are in the process of making these auditing services available at a much more reasonable price. We are contracting with a group of certified professional coders. You would submit charts and receive detailed reports and letters explaining not only what the note should be coded as, but also any particular issues or pitfalls associated with it. If you’ve attended our seminars in the past, you know what this is like. “This was coded as a 99213 and that is correct. However, your level of Risk was high enough that if you put one more patient instruction like ‘return to clinic in 3 months’ you would’ve had a 99214.” Our goal is not just to audit the chart, but to instruct and teach how to make sure your documentation, nature of the presenting problem, and final coding all match every time.

I’m about to start using this in my practice by having a ‘snapshot’ taken of 25 charts per provider every 3 months. This way I can identify trends and problems and see what coding issues I have (or my other providers are having). This gives me a sort of ‘barometer’ for my practices coding and financial health.