Business
Research Paper
Healthcare Administrative Partners (HAP) is one of the top medical billing, coding, and consulting companies in the country, which caters to healthcare providers. The company was founded in 1995 essentially, to facilitate the compliance and advancement of hospital and physicians to set performance metrics in delivering quality care. It is currently based in Media, Philadelphia and conducts outsourcing operations in nearby locations: Media, Pennsylvania and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. More information about HAP can be found in its website http://www.hapusa.com/ (HAP, 2014).
HAP takes pride in its proven process, technology infrastructure and more importantly, in the extensive experience of its leadership team in the field of healthcare. These core strengths help the company understand and meet the needs of its healthcare clients in terms of regulatory compliance, achieving efficiencies, cost reduction and improving revenues, in order for them to focus on providing quality care. The core services HAP offers are (HAP, 2014):
- Medical billing services. This entails tracking medical workflow for efficient billing and collection process, even for specific specialty. Among the capabilities provided are accounts receivables management, third party billing, eligibility verification, business intelligence for management reporting, call center for patient inquiry.
- Medical coding services. This service is offered either as a stand-alone to complement a client’s own billing system, or integrated with HAP’s billing service. It is also provided as a short or long –term partnership to facilitate a client’s professional or facility coding requirements, conducted by AAPC, ACMCS, and AHIMA certified coders.
- Medical practice management consulting. Recognizing the challenges and complexity of physician practices, HAP provides consulting services to help them in strategic planning, assess operations, or even start-up medical practice.
Medical Coding Job Requirements
HAP, like any medical coding companies, relies on its medical coding specialists to better serve its medical practitioners and healthcare provider-clients. It is a reputable company to work for and gain experience.
As a medical coding specialist, one must have the knowledge of medical terminology, illnesses, and medications to attribute to a medical diagnosis or procedure in order to capture an accurate coding of a patient’s record. Most medical coding specialists are in full time job, but may work in evening or overnight shifts. Some are allowed to work at home. The work entails review of patient’s record, test results and coordination with doctors, dental offices, nursing homes, home healthcare agencies and similar institutions to ensure accurate medical encoding (Maurer, n.d.).
The demand for medical coding is expected to rise. Employers would prefer those with specialization and experience in the field. For the new entrants, Career Coders cited personality, grammar and professionalism as some skills that employers would be looking for (Career Coders, 2014).
Reference
Career Coders, Inc. (2007-2014). What is Medical Billing and Coding? Retrieved from
https://www.careercoders.com/whatis.htm
Healthcare Administrative Partners (2014). Our Company. Retrieved from
http://www.sutherlandglobal.com/aboutus.aspx
Maurer, S. (n.d.) Becoming a Medical Coding Specialist. Retrieved from
http://www.innerbody.com/careers-in-health/becoming-medical-coding-specialist.html
