Medical Coding

Medical coding is a process of allotting proper, standardized codes to medical diagnosis and procedures. A medical coding specialist can ensure suitable financial reimbursement for medical institutions and health care providers for their expenses. The process of medical coding was implemented in order to make a precise and timely financial reimbursement from government agencies and insurance companies.

Almost all physicians want reimbursement for the services they provide to patients. This medical reimbursement process contains descriptions detailing the procedures and services that the physicians provide to their penitents. For getting a proper reimbursement, most of the physicians seek the help of medical coders (commonly called as medical records and health information technicians). With the assistance of medical coding specialists, you can easily make a planning and research. Proper management of the medical coding and billing services speeds up the reimbursement process thus making the doctors paid in a faster rate and better manner.

The necessity to organize and differentiate between complex medical procedures is important. You have to thus introduce coding procedures to bring in the required accuracy and clarity. If you lack the resources to carry out this vital process by yourself, then the best way to make your work done is outsourcing the medical coding process to us. OSI can improve your accuracy in code selections thus making the billing process smoother by providing faster and healthier reimbursement.

Usually the physicians look for those medical coding specialist to whom they can depend on for knowledge, high quality of skills and excellence of work habits. They also insist their process to be done by coders who are well-versed in medical terminology, anatomy and physiology and disease processes. We, at OSI, prepare and implement medical coding services with the help of our dedicated accountants and well qualified coders.

Coding problems most often occur in two ways - under coding and over coding. Under coding results in lost revenue whereas the outcome of over coding are denials and reviews. Being able to find the perfect balance involves a dedicated team of people and a lot of time. The time factor (in addition to expertise) is a significant value added component in our program, as we can provide more manpower for less.

OSI provides comprehensive coding solutions to the medical community and to all specialties in general. We provide our service across USA an abroad. We can help you improve your medical coding through our dedicated, experienced coders who can provide a value approach, follow regulations and give you high quality fast TAT (turn around time). Our coding team can provide you with pre-coding and coding for medical facilities, physician offices; as well as all specialties including, radiology, pathology, orthopedics, neurology and so on. We can provide medical coding for hospitals, physician offices, long term facilities, acute care facilities and so on.

Pre-Coding

The work of pre-coders is to enter the key-in codes for referring doctors, insurance companies, as well as for modifiers. In addition to this, pre-coders also include those diagnosis codes and procedure codes which are not already in the system to the clients.

Coding

Based on the description given by the provider, the coding team allocates the Diagnosis Code as well as the numerical codes for CPT (Current Procedural Terminology).