With today's tightening regulations, striking a balance between maintaining compliance and charging appropriately for your health care services has become an arduous task. Poor documentation of your patient records may not only mean lost revenue; it places your practice in danger of fines or even worse. And the complex nature of emergency medicine only serves to complicate matters further.

As an integral part of our billing services, HCFS provides expert medical coding performed by seasoned, trained professionals. By staying abreast of state and federal guidelines as well as third-party payer coding rules, we help you reduce revenue loss while staying compliant. HCFS also offers regular educational workshops designed to help your providers improve their documentation skills.

From teaching you and your colleagues how to properly document patient encounters to correctly coding each of your medical records to performing random audits, we are dedicated to helping you bridge the gap between compliance and revenue.

Medical Management Resources
Our medical coding practices are based on rigorous methodology and policies developed under the guidance of our wholly-operated subsidiary, Medical Management Resources of TeamHealth (MMR). MMR was one of the nation's first consulting firms to focus exclusively on coding and reimbursement for emergency medicine. In 2000, the company became part of TeamHealth to help ensure that our own coding operations maintained excellence.

Today, MMR continues to function under the direction of its president and CEO, Caral Edelberg, CPC, CCS-P, CHC, a nationally recognized authority in the field of emergency medicine coding, compliance and reimbursement. With renowned expertise in both professional and emergency department facility coding, MMR serves a vast client base of emergency physician groups, hospital emergency departments, coding and billing companies and compliance attorneys.

To learn more about MMR’s outsourced coding services,
please visit www.mmr-usa.com.

Do your coding and documentation practices leave room for improvement? Contact HCFS today to learn how we can help.