National Billing Center introduces CAT, the Coding Automation Toolkit

PITTSBURGH - Sept. 29, 2015 - PRLog -- September 28, 2015 – Pittsburgh, PA:   Improving Revenue Cycle is the most critical challenge facing Hospitals and Medical Practices in today’s turbulent insurance reimbursements environment. As a result of this need, Advanced Modern Solutions has developed a proprietary technology, CAT (Coding Automation Toolkit), thatstreamlines Revenue Cycle by extracting text from any medical document then immediately converts the text into a billing ready format with all relevant codes embedded (including ICD-10) with a high degree of accuracy. It also generates a DRG code based on all found procedures and diagnoses. CAT is capable of importing medical documents from EMR and standalone files. It supports most types of file formats such as DOC, DOCX, PDF, RTF, TXT, etc. There are no special requirements to the format or content of the medical document.

BENEFITS

CAT drives efficiencies and cost savings for hospitals, medical practices and other healthcare organizations that require coding services. Coding and Billing time is lowered considerably and accuracy in claim submissions is markedly improved through the automation of this process, accelerating the claim turnaround time and ultimately, the revenue cycle. Of equal importance, compliance with HIPAA’s meaningful use requirements increases because the presentation of processed data is made through an organized, structured form.

CAT solves the complex issue of transitioning from ICD-9 to ICD-10 by providing BOTH codes for every diagnosis and procedure found within the medical document. In addition, it provides the description of each code according to national standards, and is also capable of generating a list of alternatives.

CAT is compatible with any version of Microsoft Windows and has no special hardware, software or network configuration requirements. CAT is installed at no cost, within moments, on any number of computers within the medical facility’s coding organization and all subsequent updates are provided at no cost under the program’s low cost-per-use billing scenario. CAT’s full complement of codes databases are updated within 24 to 48 hours after official release.

HOW IT WORKS

Through a combination of proprietary data mining technologies and natural language understanding technologies, CAT has the capability to extract text and sections of text from any medical document, isolating elements such as drug names, procedures, diagnoses, disorders, etc. Each element is then verified with our comprehensive database and is presented in a form that is easy to read by coders and billers. The output text can be returned in several ways. For example, codes in the form of highlighted, color coded text are added to the document. Or, all elements are separated, compiled and presented in a separate spreadsheet file. Finally, CDA files compatible for importing directly into an EMR using HL7 standard can be generated. This innovative technology has been proven to revolutionize the way that hospital and medical facility services are documented, billed and collected.

ABOUT Advanced Modern Solutions and its marketing organization, National Billing Center

Advanced Modern Solutions, based in Pittsburgh, PA, is a technology development firm with more than 20 years of successful software/hardware and technology services experience. Our robust and secure web-enabled platforms are designed for ease of use by our clients and to meet HIPAA Compliance. Our development programs include an Advanced Telephony System whose gateway supports thousands of calls within seconds (application: appointment reminders, emergency broadcasts, collections, more), a state-of-the-art Call-in Dictation and Online Transcription Platform that provides industry leading rapid documents turnaround, our proprietary Encrypted Email technology that offers a HIPAA compliant platform for transmission of confidential medical or other types of non-public documents, and now, CAT (Coding Automation Toolkit). As a forward-thinking organization, our solutions are developed to be applicable today and into the future. The Internet, our expertise and the software systems and tools that we have developed enable us to establish operations and provide support, quickly, regardless of location. With over 1,300 clients such as the Walter Reed Military Medical Center, Vibra Healthcare and Georgetown/Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Advanced Modern Solutions and National Billing Center are poised to rapidly expand its user base and sales revenues as its technology enjoys exponential adoption by our satisfied clients. www.codingautomation.com
For more information, contact National Billing Center, 800-790-5331 info@nationalbillingcenter.com