Emergency Medicine Coding Background

• Directed by a nationally renowned emergency medicine coding and reimbursement expert who is both a certified coder and an emergency room nurse.

• 25 years experience coding for and training emergency medicine physicians to improve documentation and coding compliance.

• Member of the American College of Emergency Physicians Committee on Coding and Nomenclature.

• Expert witness for the Federal government on emergency medicine coding fraud and abuse.

• Trained thousands of emergency physicians how to improve documentation and over a hundred coders how to code emergency medicine.

• Expert on ambulatory payment classification system and facility coding in the emergency department.

Emergency Medicine Coding Need

• Well trained emergency medicine coders for both professional and facility charges in the emergency department are hard to find.

• Few emergency medicine coders are certified, a symbol of career commitment and quality coding.

• Coding guidelines for the facility and professional services are complex, change often and are different for the two segments.

• Coder turnover and absences create cash flow peaks and valleys.

• With so few coders specializing in this niche, it is difficult to find and hire experienced emergency medicine coders, even in large metropolitan areas. ED’s in smaller communities and tight labor markets have trouble filling openings.

• Facility coding guidelines have no national standard. Those guidelines created by individual hospitals often undervalue services.

Emergency Medicine Coding Solution

• TCN's emergency medicine coding services address both facility and professional charges.

• Your professional and/or facility emergency medicine coding will be completed within 2-to-3 workdays if sent daily.

• Send us cases by FedEx/UPS or electronically.

• We will identify any of your doctors’ documentation deficiencies to improve the quality of your medical records and optimize reimbursement.

• Our volume-driven per-visit pricing model is inexpensive and our team of coders stabilizes cash flow performance.

• A practical solution for your emergency medicine coding needs to improve coding and documentation.

• TCN recommends ACEP Facility Coding Protocols to improve facility coding consistency and increase cash flow.

Emergency Medicine Coding Services

• Ongoing emergency medicine coding services.

• Temporary emergency medicine coding services for vacation or sick leave coverage.

• Backlog coding resolution services.

• Compliance reviews.

• Hospital nursing staff documentation training.

• Physician documentation training.

• Nursing staff documentation training.

• Hospital coding protocols.

• Physician group documentation deficiency reporting.

• Emergency medicine coding "helpline" services.