A-Life Medical, Inc., the pioneer and leading provider of computer-assisted coding (CAC) products and services to the healthcare industry, announced today that A-Life Hospital, its wholly owned subsidiary, introduced a new distributor program, A-Life Partners. A-Life Partners is designed to assure rapid distribution and easy market access to A-Life Hospital’s fully integrated hospital in-patient and facility-based CAC application and technology.
Under the A-Life Partners program, A-Life Hospital will identify and align with entities throughout the health information management arena that possess complementary technology to A-Life Hospital’s CAC solutions. A-Life’s solutions are built on its proprietary, patented Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology, LifeCode®, which deciphers electronic transcribed patient encounters via the Internet through its data center, which are then appropriately coded for reimbursement purposes. This significantly expedites the billing and coding process for users.
A-Life Hospital forged it first partnership under the new A-Life Partners program with Ingenix, Inc., a leading provider of health information, technology and consulting services. Ingenix will represent Actus®, A-Life Hospital’s CAC application in the marketplace and also connect it with its Ingenix Web.Strat™ encoder. Extending Ingenix’s product portfolio and combining these complementary medical coding technologies will deliver greater value to coders by helping hospitals complete billing processes faster and more accurately, ultimately accelerating payments and reducing administrative costs.
The Actus hospital-based product has been in use for about one year at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center where executives from its health information management and finance team have validated significant increased coder productivity, reduced coder overtime, enhanced coding accuracy, reduced third party audit fees and realized an optimized Case Mix Index, which denotes revenue capture.