Product: The Coding Coach
Top Line: Healthy Eyes Advantage (HEA), the ophthalmic purchasing and business solutions partner for more than 10,000 independent eyecare professionals (IECPs) nationwide, is launching of The Coding Coach, a comprehensive toolkit to assist HEA members in optimizing medical revenue by navigating the continuous and complex changes in medical billing and reimbursement policies.
Close Up: The Coding Coach is an exclusive benefit for HEA members that provides expert guidance on both day-to-day issues and major policy changes via an extensive online database of answers to frequently asked questions, as well as a telephone hotline and email access to billing and coding experts who will address unique coding issues submitted by HEA members. (Hotline and email access will be available to all HEA members for the first three months. Thereafter, hotline access will be reserved for select HEA membership tiers.)
HEA members are automatically subscribed to The Coding Coach Newsletter, which takes a deep dive into a challenging reimbursement topic every month, as well as addressing three critical coding questions, and will be sent via e-mail.
Additionally, ‘Secrets Of a Special Testing Supercoder,’ the first webinar in The Coding Coach bimonthly webinar series, is scheduled for October 29, 7:30 to 8:30 PM Eastern. Co-presenters for this kick-off event will be Kirk Mack, COMT, COE, CPC, CPMA, and Laurie Brown, MBA, COMT, COE, CPC, CPMA, OSA, CPSS, senior consultants with the billing and coding division of BSM Consulting, which specializes in Medicare and third party payor reimbursement and compliance for the specialties of ophthalmology and optometry. HEA members may reserve their spot for the webinar by clicking here.
Vital Stats: The Coding Coach webinar series, newsletter and all other resources are available at no charge to HEA members.
“With demand increasing sharply for medical eye care services, IECPs have an ideal opportunity to create additional revenue for their practices while also increasing patient access to much needed medical eye care. Yet, it is generally accepted that the average practice loses out on more than one hundred thousand dollars each year due to incorrect coding,” said HEA chairman and CEO Jim McGrann. “The Coding Coach is designed to reverse that trend so HEA members maximize their medical revenue and increase profitability. We’re grateful to Marco Ophthalmic for their generous support in helping bring The Coding Coach to our members.”
HEA members interested in learning more about The Coding Coach and how this benefit will aid in enhancing practice profitability and upholding compliance are encouraged to contact the HEA Solutions Specialists team at (800) 959-2020, option 3. IECPs who are not HEA members are also invited to call the HEA Solutions Specialists team to learn more about the benefits of HEA membership, including The Coding Coach program. For more information, contact Diane John, VP Marketing, Healthy Eyes Advantage, at (601) 629-6683 or djohn@hea2020.com.
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