CodingWebU.com Partners with MCare Solutions, Inc. and Health Care Strategies, Inc.

MCare Solutions, Inc. (MCare) and Health Care Strategies, Inc. (HCS) announced today a partnership with CodingWebU.com to assist in marketing MCare services.

MCare is a leading provider of Transfer DRG Underpayment Reimbursement Services and 3-Day Payment Window Recovery Services. HCS is a marketing management and business development consulting firm, and has helped MCare capture a 300-plus hospital market share through its own efforts as well as through the establishment and management of channel partners.

Through CodingWebU.com’s affiliation with HCS and MCare, CodingWebU.com will offer its clients and prospects the services of MCare. Kenny Smith, President and founder of CodingWebU.com, commented, “Expanding on our product offerings is a natural extension of work I’ve done previously in the marketplace, and the coding requirements associated with 3-Day Payment Window recoveries fit in well with our organizational strengths and capabilities.”

Dave Jupp, President and founder of MCare Solutions, Inc., said, “Kenny’s background and experience in Transfer DRG recoveries and his company’s coding programs and resources will be a boost to our expansion plans, and we’re delighted that HCS has put us together.”

About MCare Solutions, Inc.

MCareSolutions, Inc. (www.mcare-solutions.com) was founded in 2005 as the first company providing Transfer DRG reimbursement recovery services for acute care providers which now includes acute care discharges related to Medicare Advantage payers. Services also include reimbursement recoveries for IME/GME payments owed to teaching hospitals for Medicare Advantage claims and underpayments resulting from erroneously bundled services related to the CMS 3-Day Payment Window. To date, MCare is responsible for nearly $100 million in underpayment reimbursements to client hospitals. MCare represents more than 300 for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals from Alaska to Florida, individual community hospitals from <100>

About CodingWebU.com

CodingWebU.com (www.codingwebu.com) is exclusively geared towards providing quality education at affordable prices to the medical coding and billing arenas. Its experienced authors average over 25 years of medical coding and billing experience.

About Health Care Strategies, Inc.

Health Care Strategies, Inc. (www.healthcarestrategiesinc.com) combines internal resources with a network of client companies and channel partners that currently provide services to over 2000 hospitals nationwide. As a result, HCS is able to guide marketing management and business development efforts for its client companies - select revenue cycle service providers who need to reach the hospital and healthcare system industry. The results are often an impressive “jump start” to obtaining market share.

CodingWebU.com Announces New Author

CodingWebU.com has partnered with a new author to develop and peform audio conferences.

About the Author

Michelle R. Baitey, CPC, CPC-H, CPC-P, CPC-I, is the president and CEO of Professional Coding Solutions, Inc. She actively serves physician clinics as a consultant, coder, chart auditor and trainer, and has a confident reputation as a competent trouble-shooter. Michelle is passionate about identifying internal issues, properly handling them and getting clients back into a place of compliance. Her mission to help others reach this status of qualified excellence shines in her role as teacher and mentor—for both coding students and professionals alike—in a variety of venues including classes, workshops, seminars, on-site training and individual instruction. Michelle has served the healthcare industry for over fifteen years, eight of which has been as a certified coder (CPC—Certified Professional Coder) through the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC). She is certified for both the hospital (CPC-H) and payer (CPC-P) designations. She is also an Approved Instructor (CPC-I) for the Professional Medical Coding Curriculum. Michelle is the founder and current president of the local Fremont, Nebraska AAPC Chapter.

Scheduled Audio Conferences:

CERT Audits; what is Medicare looking for?Approved by the AAPC for 1.5 CEUs
Live Conference July 15th, 3:00 PM Eastern Time

The Auditing breakdown, finding the right codeApproved by the AAPC for 1.5 CEUs
Live Conference July 30th, 3:00 PM Eastern Time

CodingWebU.com's Courses Approved for CEUs by PAHCS

CodingWebU.com courses have all been approved by the The Professional Association of Healthcare Coding Specialists for CEUs.

PAHCS (pronounced “packs”) is dedicated to nurturing the professional and individual development of specialty coders, especially those in small group physician practices.

PAHCS was founded in 2003 by Richard Blanchette (the founder of the Professional Association of Health Care Office Management, PAHCOM) to offer a certification path to specialty coders. PAHCS was the first association to offering specialty coders an opportunity to attain direct SPECIALTY CERTIFICATION, without taking other exams. PAHCS is a unique coding association because of our focus and dedication to member support.

PAHCS is a communications network and member support system dedicated to enhancing the compliance, documentation and reimbursement capabilities of healthcare coders.

PAHCS currently offers certification examinations in the following specialties:

Certified Cardiology Coding Specialist (CCCS)
Certified Dermatology Coding Specialist (CDCS)
Certified Emergency Medicine Coding Specialist (CEMCS)
Certified Family Practice Coding Specialist (CFPCS)
Certified Gastroenterology Coding Specialist (CGCS)
Certified General Surgery Coding Specialist (CGSCS)
Certified Internal Medicine Coding Specialist (CIMCS)
Certified Obstetrics & Gynecology Coding Specialist (COBGCS)
Certified Orthopedics Coding Specialist (COCS)
Certified Otolaryngology Coding Specialist (CENTCS)
Certified Pain Management Coding Specialist (CPMCS)
Certified Pediatrics Coding Specialist (CPEDCS)
Certified Podiatry Coding Specialist (CPODCS)
Certified Pulmonology Coding Specialist (CPCS)
Certified Urology Coding Specialist (CUCS)

Visit www.pahcs.org to find more information on PAHCS or call our national office in Tampa, Florida at 888-708-4707 and let us help you excel as a specialty medical coder!