Designed to help health insurance carriers complete medical chart risk adjustment before submission, MediConnect Global, Inc. (www.mediconnect.net ) today announced its patented medical record retrieval service is now available to Medicare Advantage Plans. The service allows plans to retrieve large volumes of medical charts quickly and economically to ensure complete and accurate diagnosis coding which dictates proper reimbursement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

“MediConnect provides carriers with a single source solution for retrieving and digitizing mass volumes of medical records from any or all of their providers,” said Amy Rees Anderson, MediConnect CEO. “Retrieving these records allows them to perform risk adjustment review either before submitting to Medicare for reimbursement or after the initial submission in order to appeal any underpaid reimbursements. A Medicare Advantage plan that does not retrieve and review these records is likely to leave significant money on the table in their reimbursements from CMS.”

Carriers simply provide MediConnect with a list of patients, and patient providers, whose records need to be retrieved. MediConnect then works directly with healthcare providers and clinics to retrieve and digitize all medical charts. MediConnect organizes all record requests by medical group (or individual providers), validates the medical group and provider contact data (as needed), and removes duplicate requests if any.

MediConnect then indexes the records, hosts the digitized record copies online, and transmits the records to the Medicare Advantage plan to ensure complete and accurate diagnosis coding is performed for submission to CMS. This allows carriers to be properly reimbursed for each plan member.

MediConnect’s patented technology and processes are streamlined and time-proven with national and global reach, and can scale up or down quickly depending on the needs of each carrier. The system is able to complete the retrieval of a high percentage of medical records for multiple purposes fast and inexpensively.

MediConnect Global, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of David H. Bywater as Global President of the Salt Lake City based medical records retrieval and analysis company. (www.mediconnect.net)

“Since 2003, MediConnect’s business has increased more than 1,100 percent with a client base that crosses every continent and global operations in both the U.S. and India,” said Amy Rees Anderson, CEO of MediConnect Global. “As we continue this growth and seek new opportunities, David’s proven leadership and global experience is exactly what we need to allow us to continue to service our current and future customers with the products and value that they expect and deserve.”

Well known for his operational excellence and strategic business approach, Mr. Bywater will have responsibility over all MediConnect Global operations.

“David has broad expertise to enable companies to scale up quickly for sustained growth, success and profitability,” said James Lee Sorenson, chairman of the board, MediConnect Global. “MediConnect will rely on his expertise to continue its rapid trajectory to be the leading medical records retrieval company in the world.”

Some of Mr. Bywater’s past positions included executive positions at Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) including Senior Managing Director for ACS’s Human Capital Management Solutions business, Chief Operating Officer for ACS’s HRO business, and Managing Director of ACS’s Healthcare Payer business which is a BPO services provider to U.S. healthcare insurers. Before ACS, Mr. Bywater was Senior Manager for Bain & Company where he focused on helping companies develop growth strategies.

Mr. Bywater has a B.S. Degree in Economics from Brigham Young University, and an M.B.A. Degree from Harvard Business School.

Legal and court professionals throughout the country have relied on Bates Stamping to help keep track of legal documents in cases for more than 100 years. Ever since the original Bates automatic numbering machine was patented in 1891, some form of Bates numbering has been used.

Even today, Bates stamping allows attorneys and court officials to clearly refer to specific points of reference within legal documents including medical records during record review and presentation.

MediConnect Global provides customizable Bates Stamping with its medical record retrieval services that is very easy to setup and automatically applied to your downloadable medical record PDF files.

When you login to your MediConnect account, scroll to the bottom of the screen and click preferences. Scroll down to Customizable Bates/Page Stamping Preferences.

Here you have as many as 11 choices you can make on how your Bates stamp will appear and in what location on the page. A small “example” window allows you to preview how the stamp will appear on your pages.

Once you’ve selected your choices, click on submit and continue to place your medical record retrieval order. Remember to select Bates Stamping.

That’s it! When you download your medical record in PDF format, the page stamping is automatically applied to the medical record.

If you don’t like how your Bate stamp appears you can make an online change and re-download the PDF with a newly formatted stamp.

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