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August 9, 2004
For
the Record Consulting & Outsourcing Buyers’ Guide
Vol. 16, No. 16, Page 14
Need help from outside your organization? This catalog
of industry leaders is the place to start your search.
Acusis
200 First Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Phone: 412-209-1300
e-mail: all.ears@acusis.com
www.acusis.com
Acusis provides outsourced medical transcription service to hospitals,
clinics, and physician practices. AcuSuite, the company’s
software, uses a secure method to manage the transcription lifecycle
from voice capture to delivering dictations with 97% accuracy within
24 hours or less.
ALLTYPE, Inc.
2202 Route 130
North Brunswick, NJ 08902
Phone: 877-ALL-TYPE (255-8973)
e-mail: sales@alltype.net
www.alltype.net
Dictation capture, medical transcription, and document distribution
solutions since 1990. Quickly deployed user-friendly services, available
24/7. ADT and HL7 interfaces, autofaxing, and Web-based solutions,
too. HIPAA-compliant, delivering quality and value far exceeding
the price per line. A refreshing, no-hype, professional transcription
experience.
All-Write Transcription
& Reporting Service
955 Washington Street, Suite One
Norwood, MA 02062
Phone: 877-ALLWRITE (255-9748) or 781-769-3172
Fax: 781-255-8690
e-mail: info@allwritetranscription.com
www.allwritetranscription.com
We provide 24-hour phone-in dictation along with digital recorder
interface. Secure Web access to your account allows for instant
viewing of current status and downloading reports. HL-7 interface
and ADT feeds make our system compatible with all current healthcare
systems.
American Academy of Professional
Coders
309 West 700 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Amphion Medical Solutions
8517 Excelsior Drive, Suite 402
Madison, WI 53717
Phone: 800-982-2182
e-mail: lschimek@amphionmedical.com
www.amphionmedical.com
Amphion Medical Solutions offers excellent transcription outsourcing
services, coding support, and the fastest-growing review service
in the country. Why? Only Amphion offers a package approach to your
coding review needs, which includes all the coding education your
staff will ever need, an up-to-date compliance plan, and more. A
decision to go with Amphion is always welcomed by your CFO, as it
has a proven track record of being the best financial coding decision
you’ll ever make. It pays for itself. Find out what your HIM
peers around the country are so excited about. Call Laurie Schimek,
RHIT, VP of sales and marketing at Amphion Medical Solutions: 888-496-6409,
ext. 229.
Arrendale Associates
20484 G. Chartwell Center Drive
Cornelius, NC 28031
Phone: 877-452-5700
www.aplusnetwork.com
Axolotl Corp.
800 El Camino Real West, Suite 150
Mountain View, CA 94040
Phone: 800-294-2518
e-mail: info@axolotl.com
www.axolotl.com
Axolotl has been providing health information management solutions
and services since 1995. Our full range of transcription systems,
services, and consultant staff will provide you with what you need
to reduce costs, improve processes, and incrementally achieve your
strategic vision.
Cardone Record Service,
Inc.
1960 South Carboy Road
Mount Prospect, IL 60056
Phone: 800-572-7272
e-mail: info@cardonerecords.com
www.cardonerecords.com
CRS offers HIM departments innovative solutions for managing electronic
medical records. Our MRView Imaging Solution is both a software
solution and a data capture service, providing both on-site and
off-site scanning services. MRView includes an innovative home-based
coding module.
Care Communications
205 West Wacker Drive, Suite 1900
Chicago, IL 60606
Phone: 800-458-3544
e-mail: info@care-communications.com
www.carecommunications.com
CARE literally wrote the book for many HIM processes over its 26
years of commitment to HIM improvement. Today, our experienced professionals
offer proven results to the toughest HIM challenges. We’ll
help you address process, reporting, budgetary, or technology needs.
CBAY Systems, Ltd.
2661 Riva Road, Building #800
Annapolis, MD 21401
Phone: 866-295-4600, ext. 3139
e-mail: info@cbaysystems.com
CBay provides transcription solutions to hospitals, integrated healthcare
facility networks, medical clinics, and physicians. Offering full
outsource, overflow, and backlog clean-up, CBay’s high-quality,
full-service, Web-based, and HIPAA-compliant services add up to
easier, more secure, accurate, and cost-effective medical transcription.
Find out how CBay can give you total control over the medical transcription
process, save you up to 20%, and keep you in compliance.
CBIZ KA Consulting Services
80 Millstone Road, Building 200,
Suite 230
East Windsor, NJ 08520
Phone: 800-957-6900, ext. 162
e-mail: pbelluomini@cbiz.com
www.kaconsults.com
For more than 25 years, CBIZ KA Consulting Services has provided
the solution for coding backlogs, inconsistent coding, and data
quality issues. Our professional coders blend practical experiences
to provide innovative contract coding services, data quality, and
coding validation reviews and educational programs.
CyMed
2807 North Parham Road, Suite 350
Richmond, VA 23294
Phone: 800-456-8951
e-mail: info@cymedinc.com
www.cymedinc.com
CyMed provides low-cost, easy-to-implement outsourced transcription
services that integrate easy-to-use, state-of-the-art technology
with Six Sigma operations techniques. Easy-to-audit billing practices
and simple counting methods ensure lower total costs.
DCBA, Inc.
4611 Brierwood Place
Atlanta, GA 30360
Phone: 770-216-9691
e-mail: dcbainc@cs.com
www.dcbainc.com
DCBA, a physician-owned healthcare consulting firm, serves healthcare
organizations in the areas of compliance and revenue management.
Our team of physician and coding consultants provides expertise
in clinical documentation improvement, I/P and O/P coding, and billing
accuracy and compliance.
Diskriter, Inc.
3257 West Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15216
e-MDs, Inc.
500 West Whitestone Boulevard, Suite 200
Cedar Park, TX 78613
Phone: 888-344-9836
www.e-mds.com
First Class Solutions,
Inc.
2060 Concourse Drive
St. Louis, MO 63146-4119
Phone: 800-274-1214
e-mail: info@firstclasssolutions.com
www.firstclasssolutions.com
Online link: www.cortrak.com
First Class Solutions, Inc. — serving clients nationally since
1988 through temporary management, operational reviews, JCAHO preparation,
department and APC/DRG coding compliance assessment, documentation
improvement education, coding support (remote and on-site), and
CORTRAK, our release of information software.
Greenberg & Associates,
Inc.
8700 North Hamlin Avenue
Skokie, IL 60076-2212
Phone: 847-329-0142
e-mail: Stanley@greenbergandassociates.org
www.greenbergandassociates.org
Greenberg & Associates, Inc. is a recognized leader in partnering
with its clients to improve the running of an HIM department through
more efficient and cost-effective methods. We provide quality services
in consulting, project management, interim management, recruitment,
and placement and provide HIM supplies (eg, paper file folder, Polyethylene
ring binders, paper and poly index dividers, year bands, and compatible
alpha and numeric color bands) at substantially reduced printing.
Health Record Services
Corporation
1777 Reisterstown Road, Suite 330
Baltimore, MD 21208
Health Revenue Assurance
Associates, Inc.
10097 Cleary Boulevard, Suite 513
Plantation, FL 33324
Phone: 919-644-0533
e-mail: info@healthrevenue.com
www.hraa.com
Health Revenue Assurance Associates’ (HRAA) mission is to
build reimbursement integrity for hospitals by providing an outsource
solution for internal auditing, coding and charge master services
for the outpatient revenue cycle, and providing educational services
designed to increase outpatient data integrity. This process often
uncovers entitled reimbursement for the facilities whereby the end
result for medical facilities utilizing HRAA services will be accurate
claims submission and compliant reimbursement prosperity.
Healthcare Contract Resources,
Inc.
3621 Manassas Drive, Suite A
Roanoke, VA 24018
Phone: 888-989-0660
e-mail: info@contractcoding.com
www.contractcoding.com
National firm providing HIM support including coding, coding and
DRG audits and reviews, interim management, project management,
and JCAHO preparation. Utilizing skill base of independent consultant
team averaging 15 years’ experience in HIM industry.
HITS Scanning Solutions
11833 New Halls Ferry Road
St. Louis, MO 63033
Phone: 314-837-4000, ext. 209
e-mail: sales@amsi-hits.com
HITS is a digital conversion company responsible for replacing paper
records with scanned images and offers total digital document management
solutions. HITS offers practical, workable solutions to common challenges
in HIM.
HSS, Inc.
2321 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT 06518
Phone: 800-999-DRGS or 203-407-3900
e-mail: hss_sales@hss-info.com
www.hssweb.com
Web.Strat, HSS’s Web-based coding solution, enables coding
to be easily deployed throughout the enterprise and in remote locations.
Featuring both logic and dictionary encoders, Web.Strat provides
automatic, electronic regulatory updates. It is available for desktop
or ASP deployment.
The Hutton Group, Inc.
1650 North 42 Circle, Suite 112
Vero Beach, FL 32967
Phone: 877-315-2298
e-mail: info@huttongrouphc.com
www.huttongrouphc.com
IMPAC Medical System7s
100 West Evelyn Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94041
Phone: 888-GO-IMPAC
e-mail: salesinfo@impac.com
www.impac.com
IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of oncology IT
solutions that streamline clinical and business operations to help
improve the process of delivering quality patient care. IMPAC offers
specialized electronic charting, full-featured practice management,
clinical laboratory management, an anatomic pathology system, and
outcomes reporting solutions. IMPAC provides practical solutions
that deliver better overall communication, process efficiency, and
quality patient care.
JLG Medical Transcription
Services
Phone: 888-554-7828
e-mail: giselle@jlgmedical.com
www.jlgmedicaltrans.com
Kforce
1001 East Palm Avenue
Tampa, FL 33605
Phone: 813-552-5000
e-mail: healthcare@kforce.com
www.kforce.com
Kforce Professional Staffing provides permanent and outsource staffing
services for medical records professionals. Our consultant services
include on-site consultant support or Web-enabled remote delivery
of medical records coding, HIM directors, transcription services,
tumor registrars, analysts, and trauma registrars.
MC Strategies, Inc.
495 Circle 85, Suite 100
Atlanta, GA 30349-6001
Phone: 800-999-6274
e-mail: sales@mcstrategies.com
www.mcstrategies.com
MC Strategies’ HIM consulting services, along with our remote
coding solution coders.com, help hospitals realize maximum coding/billing
accuracy and regulatory compliance. Our WebInservice e-learning
solutions combine a robust learning management platform with expert-authored
content, such as our proprietary EduCode coding and compliance curriculum.
Medical Coding Services,
Inc.
60 Oswego Street
Baldwinsville, NY 13027
Phone: 800-627-8588
e-mail: info@mcscoding.com
www.mcscoding.com
Medical Coding Services, Inc. provides experienced coding professionals
for ICD-9-CM and CPT coding and quality compliance audits on-site
and remote. All our coders are credentialed RHIA, RHIT, CCS, CCS-P
with extensive coding experience.
MedLearn
287 East Sixth Street, Suite 400
St. Paul, MN 55101
Phone: 800-252-1578
e-mail: slappen@medlearn.com
www.medlearn.com
Medical Learning, Incorporated is a nationally recognized consulting,
publications, and training company that specializes in providing
coding, reimbursement, compliance, and educational services for
hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare service organizations.
Our ongoing development of professional personnel and products provide
innovative and real-time solutions for our clientele to further
establish our presence and growth within the marketplace.
MedQuist Inc.
1000 Bishops Gate Boulevard, Suite 300
Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054
Phone: 800-233-3030
E-mail: info@medquist.com
MedQuist Inc. is the nation’s largest provider of transcription
outsourcing and healthcare document management services. It provides
a host of scalable and flexible dictation, transcription, speech
recognition, workflow management, medical coding, and outsourcing
services to clients.
MLT Medical Coding, Inc.
115 Campbell Street, Suite 202
Geneva, IL 60134
Phone: 630-208-0280
e-mail: mtomer@sbcglobal.net
www.mltcoding.com
MLT Medical Coding, Inc. provides professional HIM support staff
on a temporary basis. Services include inpatient and outpatient
coding, data abstracting, coding and reimbursement review, tumor
registry, and HIM consulting. Remote coding is available.
Morgan Stewart HIS
4833 Fitzpatrick Way
Norcross, GA 30092
Phone: 877-877-5802 or 866-370-0659
e-mail: info@msqim.com
www.msqim.com
Morgan Stewart HIS is a leading provider of HIM services. Our experienced
staff of HIM professionals can assist with on-site and remote coding,
coding quality reviews, operational assessment, interim management,
and more! Call us today to see how Morgan Stewart can become a part
of your team!
NJPR
Contact: Lori A. Hedges-Stephens, RHIA, director of marketing
129 Littleton Road
Parsippany, NJ 07054
Phone: 973-334-3443
e-mail: l.h.stephens@njpr.com
www.njpr.com
NJPR provides various HIM consulting services, including coding,
coding reviews of inpatient, outpatient, emergency room, and evaluation
management cases focusing on accuracy and thoroughness of coding,
documentation reviews, medical transcription assessments, and hospital
department and physician office billing evaluations.
OAK Horizons
1500 Bunbury Drive
Thompsons Station, TN 37179
Phone: 615-595-6279
e-mail: info@oakhorizons.com
www.oakhorizons.com
Experienced professionals providing comprehensive, Internet-based
training for new and experienced MTs (by specialty, productivity);
MT recruiting; Internet-based customized testing for services and
healthcare facilities (option to use your voice files, which we
make HIPAA-compliant); consulting HIM and transcription.
On Assignment
26651 West Agoura Road
Calabasas, CA 91302
Phone: 800-364-4260
e-mail: HIM@onassignment.com
www.onassignment.com
On Assignment’s HIM team has 25 years of experience providing
highly skilled and productive inpatient/outpatient coders and quality
review auditors locally and nationally. All our professionals are
backed with a cost-to-benefit analysis, demonstrating proven financial
return on your investment.
Precyse Solutions
198 Allendale Road, Suite 201
King of Prussia, PA 19406
Phone: 866-PRECYSE
www.precysesolutions.com
As a leader in outsourced HIM services, Precyse Solutions understands
the vital role that accurate, critical information plays in the
success of today’s healthcare institutions. Leveraging our
vast staff resources and proven expertise, Precyse delivers total
HIM outsourcing services, as well as long-term contract and interim
management solutions for healthcare organizations.
PHNS
15851 Dallas Parkway, Suite 925
Addison, TX 75001
Phone: 972-701-8042
e-mail: kathy.willis@phns.com
www.phns.com
PHNS, successor of RMS and MedGrup, helps hospitals harness the
latest in medical records management technologies and processes
to ensure accurate, timely, and compliant management of your hospital’s
medical records. Our professional HIM consultants are available
for on-site and remote coding, audits, training and education, interim
management, medical records services, and special projects.
Q.E.D. Transcription Service
4 McKissic Creek Center
Bentonville, AR 72712
Phone: 800-630-4704
e-mail: KyleAJ@qedtrans.com
www.qedtrans.com
Smart Document Solutions
120 Bluegrass Valley Parkway
Alpharetta, GA 30005
Phone: 800-367-1500
e-mail: info@smartdocumentsolutions.net
www.smartdocumentsolutions.net
Smart Document Solutions (SDS) is the world’s largest health
document processor. With more than 28 years of experience, SDS offers
comprehensive health data management solutions, including automated
return on investment and electronic patient record storage and retrieval.
SOURCECORP
Phone: 800-448-CODE
www.lexicode.com
SOURCECORP provides a full complement of facility and physician
coding services nationally to healthcare providers. We deliver quality
and timely services to clients by utilizing professional and well-trained
employees. Each health information coding consultant is credentialed,
experienced, carefully evaluated, and trained to comply with all
the official AHA, AMA, and CMS guidelines. Our services include:
• On-site coding support
• Remote coding center
• Department outsourcing
• DRG/APC concurrent and retrospective auditing
• E & M coding and auditing
• Coder education
• Physician documentation improvement programs
• Other special projects
Spheris
720 Cool Springs Boulevard, Suite 200
Franklin, TN 37067
Phone: 800-368-1717
e-mail: sales@spheris.com
www.spheris.com
Spheris is a leading medical transcription company dedicated to
simplifying healthcare information delivery and easing complexities
faced by physicians, HIMs, and IT managers. Spheris combines the
people, experience, and technology to deliver the accuracy, speed,
and security necessary in outsourced medical transcription.
STAT Solutions, Inc.
P.O. Box 15206
Clearwater, FL 33766
Phone: 888-297-7212
e-mail: info@statsolutionsinc.com
www.statsolutionsinc.com
STAT Solutions, Inc.—the most respected name in coding support—provides
HIM departments nationwide with experienced, credentialed staff
for on-site/off-site coding. “Team STAT” is available
for elimination of backlogs, coverage of staffing shortages, or
total department outsourcing. Simply the best.
Textware Solutions
Contact: Marianne Kleen
58 Lexington Street
Burlington, MA 01803-4005
Phone: 800-355-5251
e-mail: info@textware.com
www.textware.com
Instant Text is the most advanced fast text-entry solution for Windows.
Unique features include Glossary Compilation; Natural Language Processing;
Abbreviations Without Memorization; and Patented Continuations that
show what is likely to follow. Instant Text offers the industry’s
highest transcription productivity gain with measurable keystroke
savings.
3M Health Information Systems
575 West Murray Boulevard
Murray, UT 84123
Phone: 800-367-2447
www.3Mhis.com
3M Health Information Systems is a leading provider of advanced
software tools and services that help healthcare organizations capture,
classify, and manage accurate healthcare data.
Vasant Scribes Incorporated
3618 Hulmeville Road
Bensalem, PA 19020
Phone: 866-699-6476
e-mail: sales@vasantscribes.com
www.vasantscribes.com
Transcription, coding, and billing services at great prices. Overnight
turnaround and a toll-free call-in support and service staff. Send
in dictations over our toll-free telephone lines or digital recorders.
Call us for a free two-week trial.
Vianeta
694 Tasman Drive
Milpitas, CA 95035
Phone: 866-VIANETA
e-mail: info@vianeta.com
www.vianeta.com
Vianeta Communications is the premier provider of XML-based solutions
for health information management. Vianeta’s dictation, transcription,
speech-recognition, and document scanning products unify health
information into digital patient folders, advancing patient care.
More than 160 hospitals in North America utilize Vianeta for clinical
documentation, revenue cycle management, and clinical data applications.
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