Best Billing Practices Model / Regional Medical Coder and Billing Compliance
Coordinator
The Northwest Partnership will collaborate to develop an effective billing management model to maximize billing procedure efficiencies and increase health department expense recovery. For this two year initiative the Partnership will hire a regional medical coder to standardize a medical coding system and develop a best billing and compliance practices model based on the new system.
Resources
Coming soon.
Tools Developed
Regional Medical Coder & Billing Compliance Coordinator
Regional Medical Coder & Billing Compliance Project Description & Awards
Coding Best Practices: Northwest Partnership for Public Health (pdf)
Widener, MA; DuVernois, RN, MPH. This presentation was developed by the regional medical coder (hired by the Northwest Partnership), and partnership coordinator to briefly explain the project, provide examples of how this project is beneficial to health departments, and an overview of the position and how it was created.Addressing Medical Billing Challenges in Public Health (pdf)
Ange, Belton, DuVernois, Leonard, White, & Widener (March 2009). The above business plan provides a detailed account of the Northwest Partnership medical coding project, including program vision, overall strategy and timeline, business and financial analysis/needs, detailed appendices and references.This outstanding business plan was the 2009 blue ribbon award-winning project at the Management Academy for Public Health (UNC at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health & Kenan-Flagler Business School).