GeBBS Healthcare Blog

Avoid a Shutdown of Your Revenue Cycle during the Transition to ICD-10

Posted on Tue, Dec 10, 2013 @ 09:40 AM

Early test results reported in Becker’s Hospital Review from data gathered by HIMSS and WEDI indicate that only 63% of ICD-10 documentation was accurately coded.   In addition, coders averaged only two medical records per hour, compared with four per hour under ICD-9, which equates to a 50 percent drop in productivity.

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Tags: ICD-10, Revenue Cycle Management (RCM), Medical Coding

Don’t Overlook Clinical Documentation in Your ICD-10 Preparations

Posted on Tue, Nov 26, 2013 @ 10:29 AM

Is your clinical documentation ready for ICD-10? CMS has prepared a guide called Simple Steps to Improve Clinical Documentation; it’s worth your time to review it.

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Tags: ICD-10, Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI), Medical Coding

A Tool that Can Aid in Your ICD-10 Transition

Posted on Wed, Sep 04, 2013 @ 09:53 AM

Seldom has any mandate or compliance regulation had the potential to disrupt, so severely, the revenue stream of almost every healthcare provider. The transition to ICD-10 is going to require one of the most intense and longest learning curves in the history of U.S. healthcare. As everyone is aware, proper coding of the care delivered is critical to your reimbursements.  Moving from ICD-9 to ICD-10 is going to be a giant leap -- not a baby step.

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Tags: ICD-10, Medical Coding

Beware of Errant Sea Lions!

Posted on Wed, Aug 28, 2013 @ 12:56 PM

It is highly unlikely you will be hit by a sea lion – new ICD-10 code W5612XA, but it’s a sure thing your revenue stream will take a devastating blow if you are not fully prepared for the transition to the new ICD-10 coding set. The code mentioned in the previous sentence is just one example of the seemingly ludicrous granularity of the new ICD-10 codes. This increased specificity, which offers well over 70,000 codes, will create an overwhelming potential for errors in your coding workflow. Even your most experienced coders are going to find this transition challenging.

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Tags: ICD-10, Medical Coding

Trends in Healthcare Billing: Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management and Global Offshore Medical Billing

Posted on Wed, May 29, 2013 @ 01:02 PM

Today’s healthcare delivery system is at the center of many political and social debates. The ongoing focus of these debates is often how the healthcare financial process is handled, and it is one of the many problems frustrating professionals in the billing department of hospitals and medical facilities.

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Tags: Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Revenue Cycle Management (RCM), Healthcare Revenue Billing, Medical Coding, Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO)

The Impact of Accountable Care on Your Revenue Cycle

Posted on Thu, Apr 11, 2013 @ 04:27 PM

Becoming an accountable care organization (ACO) requires that your facility adopt a completely new point of view when it comes to revenue cycle management. The goal of an ACO is to reduce costs by improving the quality of care provided to patients. Providers are encouraged to and boost preventative efforts that may ultimately reduce the future need for high-cost medical services such as hospital stays. As a reward for the collaborative efforts of the ACO, participating insurers such as Medicare will generally offer financial rewards for lowering costs and meeting quality care goals for their patients. On the down side, this also means that ACO providers are accountable to Medicare and may risk losing money if their costs run higher than expected. Costs will no longer just affect overall profitability; for example, they will be evaluated in conjunction with efficiency to determine reimbursement parameters. Healthcare organizations need to be able to collect the correct financial and quality data, compile accurate reports and run predictive analytics in order to meet ACO objectives of better care at lower costs.

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Tags: Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Revenue Cycle Management (RCM), Evaluation and Management (E&M) Requirements, GeBBS Healthcare Solutions, Healthcare Revenue Billing, Medical Coding, Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO), Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Affordable Care Act

Medical Coding Outsourcing Provides Solution to Coding Rejections

Posted on Thu, Jan 03, 2013 @ 12:18 PM

Medical Coding Outsourcing Provides Solution to Backlogged Coding Rejections

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Tags: GeBBS Healthcare Solutions, Medical Coding

Healthcare Solutions in India | The Globalization of Healthcare Delivery

Posted on Sat, Dec 22, 2012 @ 12:51 PM

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Tags: Revenue Cycle Management (RCM), HIPAA, GeBBS Healthcare Solutions, Medical Coding

GeBBS Healthcare Solutions Crosses 2,000 Employee Level

Posted on Mon, Dec 17, 2012 @ 05:14 PM


GeBBS Healthcare Solutions, Inc., an industry leader in healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) outsourcing solutions, today announced it has crossed the 2,000 employee mark. The company plans to add another 600 employees by the end its fiscal year, March 31, 2013. Many of the company’s expanded employee base are being deployed on medical coding projects, the fastest growing segment of GeBBS’ business.

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Tags: Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Revenue Cycle Management (RCM), GeBBS Healthcare Solutions, Medical Coding

Effective Tips on ICD-10 Implementation for Healthcare Providers

Posted on Sun, Nov 11, 2012 @ 07:45 AM

The old adage: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure holds true for the potential increased denials that the new ICD-10 code set will bring when it is finally implemented in October 2014.

The conversion to ICD-10 is a HIPAA code set requirement. Providers, including physicians, are HIPAA “covered entities”, which means that you must comply with the HIPAA requirements.

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Tags: ICD-10, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), HIPAA, Medical Coding