Capture Appropriate Reimbursement Through Improved Coding
How is inaccurate coding affecting your patient care and revenue? Coding is undoubtedly the most complex function of the revenue cycle, yet the most important for your financial health and safety of your patients. Accurate, timely and appropriate coding records your patient’s care journey. It ensures all appropriate revenue is identified, reduces denied claims, decreases cost-to-collect and helps mitigate compliance risk.
Our coding services provide highly trained and experienced coding experts while removing the burden of finding the right talent in a timely manner. We can handle all patient types and specialties, both facility and professional. Either through support of your current team or a complete outsource of the coding function, benefit from our coding program’s optimized performance.
Not sure where to start? Deploy our extremely talented Coding Audit team to identify risk areas, provide recommendations and deliver post audit education.
Our Coding Audits will:
- Provide inpatient, outpatient or professional audit. Target specific areas of concern or choose a random sampling to better understand areas of opportunity.
- Identify risk areas and provide recommendations for improvement.
- Implement industry standards and leading best practices.
- Provide post audit education and mentoring programs.
Our Coding Services will:
- Provide interim or long-term skilled and credentialed coding resources.
- Perform backlog resolution.
- Expertly address hospital-based or professional coding across all specialties, including ASC's.
- Maintain a quality standard above 95% accuracy.
- Remove the administrative burden of talent acquisition, training, and education.
- Ensure regulatory compliance
How Savista Delivers:
records coded annually
overall coding accuracy
years’ average auditor experience
records audited annually
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