Healthcare Consulting Services
The goals of HealthPort Healthcare Consulting Services (HCS) are to reduce our clients' health information management backlogs and downtime, resolve problems, improve processes, and promote long-term success for your organization.
To achieve these goals, we've coupled multiple staffing options with flexible pricing to serve facilities of every size and every budget. You retain control over how our services are delivered: remote or on-site, your technology or ours, interim or long-term commitments. The choice is yours.
Our menu of services addresses health information, coding compliance, and revenue cycle improvement:
Auditing
Meeting revenue goals and ensuring regulatory compliance involves
partnering with expert third party auditing organizations to ensure
nothing is overlooked. For decades, HealthPort has helped healthcare
organizations validate current operations and bring them into
compliance through experienced analysis, assessment, and
recommendations.
HealthPort's auditing team provides:
- APC & DRG validation
- Case mix index analysis
- Review of evaluation and management assignment
- Compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies, and practice standards
- Documentation
including clinical specificity, severity of illness, revenue
optimization, quality outcomes, and pay for performance
- Charge to code reconciliation
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Cancer Registry
HealthPort keeps cancer databases up-to-date and registry commitments
met with outsourced certified tumor registry consultants. On-site or
remote, HealthPort can complete and submit abstract information
accurately, completely, and on time!
Our key areas of expertise in Cancer Registry include:
- Concurrent and backlog abstracting
- Program assessment and consulting
- Case finding and follow-up
- Complete program outsourcing
- ACoS survey preparation
- Tumor board and cancer committee support
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Coding
Healthcare organizations across the nation struggle with recruiting and retaining qualified, experienced clinical coders. When coder positions remain vacant, backlogs occur and revenue is delayed. Finally, organizations struggle to ensure clinical coding remains accurate and complete.
Utilizing HealthPort outsourced coding services helps:
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Maintain productivity and eliminate backlogs
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Supplement your staff, fill vacancies
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Serve as a longer-term departmental solution
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HealthPort Alliance - A Premier Education Community
HealthPort Alliance is a trusted community for HIM, coding and registry education and
professional development. Timely and affordable, the Alliance provides
quality education you can trust from a company you know.
Alliance participants get the most up-to-date industry information in a
variety of affordable and convenient formats. Courses are led by some
of the industry’s premier subject matter experts and most are approved
by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) for
continuing education credits.
The HealthPort Alliance features:
- Engaging and interactive audio conferences.
- Compelling content from the industry's premier subject matter experts.
- Quality educational opportunities for every level of health information professional.
- Affordable prices to meet any budgetary requirement.
For more information visit www.healthportalliance.com
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Management and Consulting
HealthPort's credentialed, expert staff can manage a wide variety of consulting projects from complete health information management department administration to JCAHO survey preparation. With over 30 years of experience behind our name, HealthPort is a comprehensive provider of health information management and revenue cycle services.
Our staff is capable of handling an assortment of assignments including:
- Interim departmental management
- Departmental outsourcing
- Operations assessments
- JCAHO surveys preparation
- Electronic health record transition planning
- Process improvement and re-engineering
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RAC Support Services
Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC)
requirements have created an overwhelming situation for many
hospitals—one that must be quickly addressed. HealthPort is an industry
expert on RAC. Our consultants use a data-driven approach to help
analyze risk, implement effective processes, and support RAC appeals.
HealthPort’s RAC experts help your organization:
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Prepare for RAC and analyze financial impact
- Strengthen coding and clinical documentation to minimize risk
- Audit denials and author appeals
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Revenue Cycle Management
Denied and pended claims can represent millions of dollars in accounts receivables. When reimbursements are delayed, cash flow stops. HealthPort's chargemaster, denials management, and pended claims experts are here to help.
We will carefully analyze every step of your revenue cycle, finding new and proven methods to help your organization reach peak financial performance. And beyond analysis, HealthPort can completely manage these functions for you. The result--greater efficiency, more streamlined processes, and faster reimbursement.
Maintain healthy cash flow through:
- Chargemaster cleanup and management
- Denials management
- Pended claims management
- DNFB management
- Payer contract auditing and review
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