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Medical Billing & Coding Specialist

Revenue leakage in healthcare practices usually traces back to the same few places, miscoded claims, slow submission, and denials that never get worked because nobody has the bandwidth. This service handles the full revenue cycle: accurate ICD-10, CPT, and HCPCS coding, timely claim submission, and structured denial management that actually appeals and recovers denied claims instead of writing them off. It's for practices where denial rates or days-in-A/R are higher than they should be, and coding errors are quietly costing reimbursement. You get cleaner claims, faster reimbursement, and a denial-management process that fights for the revenue you've already earned.

This is a capability we deliver for you as a service, not a role we’re hiring for.

How We’d Approach This

A clear, staged plan, not a black box

These are the service-specific steps inside our six-step process.

  1. 1

    Diagnose current coding accuracy, denial rates, and days-in-A/R against industry benchmarks.

  2. 2

    Pilot revised coding and submission workflows on one service line, tracked against baseline denial rates.

  3. 3

    Review denial patterns and coding accuracy with billing staff and providers before full rollout.

  4. 4

    Take over full coding, claim submission, and denial management on an ongoing basis.

What You Get

Deliverables from this engagement

  • An accuracy-audited ICD-10/CPT/HCPCS coding workflow
  • Reduced denial-rate and days-in-A/R reporting
  • An active denial-management and appeals process
  • Revenue-cycle dashboards tracked by service line

Six Ways We Could Architect This

Different engagement, different build, pick the shape that fits

There’s more than one way to deliver on this service. Browse a few of the ways we’d structure the work, depending on your speed, budget, and integration needs.

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Lean Fast-Start Architecture

Intake

  • Patient Encounter Note
  • Certified Coder

Coding and Claims

  • ICD-10 CPT HCPCS Code Selection
  • Claim Form Builder
  • Basic Claim Scrub
  • Submit to Clearinghouse
  • Payer Response
  • Denied or Paid

Follow Up

  • Manual Appeal Letter
  • Post Payment to Ledger
  • Shared Spreadsheet Tracker
  • Practice Owner Review

Cloud-Native / Managed Services Architecture

Practice Systems

  • EHR System
  • Practice Management Software

Managed Billing Platform

  • Cloud Coding Engine
  • Payer Rules Engine
  • Managed Clearinghouse Service

Payer Network

  • Commercial Payer
  • Medicare and Medicaid
  • Electronic Remittance Advice

Reporting

  • AR Aging Dashboard
  • Denial Work Queue
  • Encrypted Cloud Backup
  • Revenue Cycle Analytics

Event-Driven & Automation-First Architecture

Triggers

  • Encounter Closed Event
  • Automated Code Suggestion

Automation Engine

  • Automated Claim Build
  • Automated Scrubbing Rules
  • Auto Submit Queue
  • ERA Webhook Received
  • Auto Payment Posting

Denial Handling

  • Denial Detected
  • Auto Generated Appeal Draft

Notifications

  • Staff Alert Notification
  • Aging Threshold Trigger
  • Auto Created Follow Up Task

Enterprise-Grade & Compliance-Ready Architecture

Access Control

  • Role Based Access Control
  • PHI Encryption at Rest

Coding and Claims Core

  • Coder Workstation
  • Independent Coding QA Review
  • Claim Submission Engine

Audit and Compliance

  • HIPAA Audit Log
  • Compliance Officer Sign Off
  • SOC 2 Controls Monitoring

Redundancy

  • Disaster Recovery Site
  • Multi Payer Redundant Routing
  • Record Retention Policy
  • Incident Response Plan

AI-Augmented, Human-in-the-Loop Architecture

Input Data

  • Clinical Documentation
  • AI NLP Extraction

AI Coding Engine

  • AI Suggested Codes
  • Confidence Scoring
  • Confidence Below Threshold

Human Review Gate

  • Certified Coder Review Gate
  • Approved or Needs Correction
  • Sent Back for Correction
  • Approved Codes

Submission

  • Finalized Claim
  • Submit to Payer
  • Coder Feedback Loop
  • Model Retraining Pipeline

Integration-Heavy / Ecosystem-Connected Architecture

Client Practice Stack

  • Client EHR System
  • Client Practice Management Tool
  • Client Accounting Software

Integration Layer

  • Integration API Gateway
  • HL7 FHIR Interface

Billing Service Core

  • Coding and Claims Core
  • Clearinghouse Connection
  • Payer Portal Connections

Reporting and Sync

  • Two Way Data Sync
  • AR Balance Sync Back
  • Practice Dashboard Export
  • Real Time Alerts to Practice Staff

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