General Surgery Medical Coding & Billing Solutions
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9% Higher
Collections
35% Lower
Costs
40% Reduction
in A/R Days
12% Reduction
Claim Denials
What is General Surgery
General surgery broadly addresses surgical conditions that involve almost any area of the body. General surgeons perform a variety of procedures, such as hernia repairs, gallbladder removals, and appendectomies. The specialty is dedicated to the preoperative, operative, and postoperative management of patients with a broad spectrum of diseases.. According to the latest reports, there are more than 24,881 providers in General Surgery in the US.
Our Expertise in General Surgery Coding & Billing
Typical scenarios include appendicitis, hernias, and gallbladder diseases. Common procedures are appendectomy, hernia repair, and cholecystectomy. Frequent ICD codes include K35.80 (Acute appendicitis) and K40.90 (Inguinal hernia). CPT codes feature 44950 (Appendectomy) and 49505 (Repair inguinal hernia). HCPCS codes include J9390 (Vincristine sulfate injection).
Amy, CombineHealth's AI medical coder, is well-versed with different diagnosis and procedure codes realted to General Surgery as well as follows all the General Surgery coding guidelines. Amy analyses the provider notes and determines the most appropriate ICD-10, CPT and HCPCS codes to maximise collections and reduce denials.
Benefits of Our AI-Powered General Surgery Coding and Billing Solutions
Superior Quality
Capable of understanding complex medical notes, Amy has an astonishingly high accuracy of 99.2%, ensuring all the General Surgery charts are correctly coded
Adherence to Guidelines
Medical coding guidelines evolve each year, making it difficult for human coders to track. Amy is well-versed with General Surgery guidelines and ensures full compliance with them.
Faster and Cost Effective
Have a huge backlog of cases to be coded at the end of the month? No problem, Amy’s got you covered. Worried about rising coding costs? Amy helps with General Surgery coding at a fraction of the cost
Less Denials
Denials are on the rise due to several factors. By carefully analysing the medical records, General Surgery guidelines and proactively asking for required information, Amy ensures the highest collections and lowest denials.
Why Choose CombineHealth?
CombineHealth’s Amy is a powerful AI-powered medical coder for General Surgery. Amy analyses medical records, including doctor notes, lab test descriptions, medical history, etc., and automatically assigns the appropriate ICD-10 and CPT codes. This increases coding accuracy and reduces claim denials. Like human coders, Amy also recognises gaps in medical documentation, promptly querying the providers to give additional context whenever needed.
Finally, Amy clearly highlights her thought process behind determining the medical codes. This significantly eases the process of auditing Amy’s outputs, helping with a reliable and trustworthy adoption of medical coding AI for General Surgery.
Delivering Superior Results with Trust by AI
Explainability
AI is often dubbed as black box, making it difficult to trust and rely upon. CombineHealth’s AI workforce is built to provide full transparency and explanation for each of their decisions
Human in the loop
The AI workforce tells you when they are not sure and need help. They proactively inform when a human review is needed, thus ensuring that you are in control of all the decisions.
Continuous learning
AI continuously learns from your feedback as well as adapts to ever-changing compliance scenario and ensures each of the generated code is 100% compliant with the rules.
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