Rush, Shands "go live" with CodeRyte technology

Monday, 03 October 2005

Bethesda, Maryland (October 3, 2005) — Shands at the University of Florida (UF), Gainesville, and Chicago's Rush University Medical Center are the first facilities in the U.S. to embrace CodeRyte's new Parallel-Coding application, the Bethesda, MD.-based company announced today. This exciting new product allows simultaneous, real-time, professional and technical billing to be submitted to payers.

Shands at UF is using CodeRyte's sophisticated synchronization of professional and technical codes. After Shands at UF HIM staff review and approve the professional codes, they are then compared with previously submitted technical codes and, when appropriate, charges and credits are generated to ensure the two information streams are consistent. These charges/credits are then sent back to an existing Radiological Information System (RIS) for appropriate billing adjustments in technical-fee billing.

"CodeRyte has given us quick and accurate coding — this is true and we expected that — but the real advantage is that we've got a feedback loop to physicians for dictation; to coders for improving productivity and quality; and to our technologists and even the CDM," said Anne D'Amico, business manager for the Shands at UF radiology department. "You can see what you're doing from beginning to end. And I'd say it has worked out better than we planned."

At Shands at UF, CodeRyte's CodeAssist coding solution selects notes to be automatically routed to Shands. coding staff for QA review, thus allowing coders to focus on compliance and supplemental coding.

Rush, which is the preferred medical center of the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Bulls, and home to the teams' physicians, is coding hospital radiology services with CodeRyte's application and is in the process of going live with the technology for professional services of radiologists.

Rush uses CodeRyte's CodeComplete solution, which includes both review and correction of automatically coded notes by CodeRyte certified and experienced coding staff.

"The implementation process with CodeRyte was very well-planned and coordinated," said Bernard Peculis, administrative director for diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine at Rush. "The association with CodeRyte is expected to provide us better turnaround on our procedural coding and billing."

Shands at UF and Rush are on the growing list of academic medical centers using CodeRyte's technology, that includes, among others, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Cornell University Weill Medical College in New York City; Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia; and Clarian Health Partners (Methodist, Indiana University and Riley Children's Hospitals) in Indianapolis.

Founded in 1999, CodeRyte develops technologies and services that automate and improve healthcare coding and billing processes, as well as compliance and quality monitoring capabilities. CodeRyte customers also include billing companies, practice management firms, specialty practices and hospitals. For more information, visit www.coderyte.com or call (301) 951-5300.