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Ensuring the Financial Wellness of Your Physician Practice

Our Capabilities & Services

 


Like most professionals, we have developed particular expertise in certain specialties. Below you'll find a list of services that cross specialty lines.


Chart Audits:
•       Baseline, focused review, and annual

        “check up”
         • prospective 
         • retrospective
•       Mail-in audits available

•       Performed by a CPC
•       More than just determining the level of E&M service!
         • specialty specific
•       Train-the-trainer programs for ongoing

        auditing and monitoring of your
        compliance program


Coding:
•       CPT and ICD-9 code review for:
         • completeness
         • accuracy
         • proper documentation
         • proper reimbursement

Special Expertise:
•       Responding to Medicare/Payer Audits
         • Pre and Post Payment Review
         • Additional Documentation Requests (ADRs)
•       Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Requests
•       Voluntary Refunds
•       Independent Review Organization (IRO)
•       Speaking Engagements/Lecture Series

Education:

•       Physicians
•       Non-Physician Practitioners (NPPs)
•       Therapists
•       Ancillary Staff
•       Exectutive Management
         • Individualized for your practice!
•       On-site or Interactive Webinars
•       Modifiers
•      
Local Coverage Determinations (LCDs)

•       Documentation/Reimbursement

•       Pay for Performance (e.g., PQRI, E-Prescribing)


Credentialing:
•      Medicare:
         • Individual Providers (e.g., Physicians/NPPs)
         • Group Practices
         • IDTFs/Mobile Imaging
         • DME Suppliers 
•           Health Care Clinic Licenses
•           Health Care Clinic Establishlment Permit
•           CLIA


Policies & Procedures:
•       Corporate Compliance
•       HIPAA
•       Personnel
•       Pain Clinics
•       Risk Management/Quality Assurance

Compliance:
•      
Risk assessments per the OIG’s compliance
         guidance
         • coding and billing
         • documentation
            • in the medical record
            • on the claim
•      
Reasonable and necessary services
         • medical necessity guidelines
         • advance beneficiary notices
•       Risk assessments & policies per the
HIPAA
       
 
regulations
         • privacy and security