Online Healthcare Claim Filing Tool Empowers Millions of Providers to Bill Insurers Electronically

PR Log (Press Release) – May 17, 2007 – ABC Coding Solutions now offers all healthcare practitioners an online tool to submit paper or electronic claims to gain visibility within the healthcare industry. http://www.eClaim.biz generates unique claim attachments to justify billing within state scope of practice without requiring users to purchase software, servers or commit large sums of money.  Users can route industry-standard claims to most insurers in the U.S.  http://www.eClaim.biz is easy to use; the only technical requirements are a personal computer and an Internet connection (high-speed is recommended). Users can also opt to fix costs rather than pay $1.50 per claim (about $65 a month for unlimited claims).

Dr. Clayton Christensen, the world’s leading authority on innovation management and disruptive innovation suggests that eClaim.biz will help fix healthcare by providing a cheaper service to an under-serviced population (see: http://medicalnewswire.com/artman/publish/article_9539.shtml).

eClaim.biz is revolutionary because, in addition to supporting claims from conventional physicians, it also supports claims from over three million healthcare practitioners who, unlike physicians, are governed by different scope of practice laws in each state. Differences in scopes of practice laws and lack of standard descriptions of care previously made claims from advanced nurse, behavioral health, alternative medicine and many other practitioners difficult to process.  ABC Coding Solutions solved this complicated problem by tracking laws in each state for these underserved professions, developing care transaction codes, and integrating this information in eClaim.biz.

eClaim.biz maps care descriptions based on ABC codes to federally mandated billing codes.  Thus, the use of http://www.eClaim.biz not only saves time and administrative costs, but also helps both practitioners and the insurance industry avoid fraudulent billing that can trigger fines up to $10,000 per claim (these fines have exceeded $9 billion dollars over the past five years). eClaim.biz is the only web-hosted tool that provides guidance for billing within scope of practice.

Healthcare expenditures are rising and consumers are demanding more healthcare choices. eClaim.biz helps reduce healthcare expenses by supporting billing from the majority of practitioners who typically charge less than conventional doctors.  Data collected during billing then identifies cost effective options to medical treatments.

"Our whole process is aimed at reducing paperwork, legal exposure, data entry time, and billing errors. Our goal is to save time and money for practitioners and insurers while creating transparency in the cost and effectiveness of all healthcare options," said Melinna Giannini, CEO of ABC Coding Solutions.

About ABC Coding Solutions and eClaim.biz

ABC Coding Solutions (formerly Alternative Link) was founded in 1996 to fill critical gaps in mandated medical code sets jointly developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the American Medical Association. The company's ABC codes are used to document care provided by more than three million licensed and qualified healthcare practitioners. The company also provides consulting services for developing insurance plans and payment systems that enable greater public access to quality healthcare options.

For more information please visit www.ABCcodes.com, www.eClaim.biz, email to; Info@ABCcodes.com or call 877-621-5465.