Horn Memorial Hospital Chooses LYNX Coding Services

LYNX Coding Services will improve professional coding accuracy and streamline workflows for northwest Iowa healthcare provider

June 19, 2007—Bellevue, WA—YNX Medical Systems (LYNX), a leading provider of emergency medicine documentation and revenue management solutions, today announced an agreement with Horn Memorial Hospital (HMH) for outsourced professional coding services.

“LYNX was highly recommended by other hospitals within my network,“ said Carrie Arens, Health Information director at HMH. ”LYNX will help us capture services and procedures provided to our patients to ensure coding accuracy and increase compliance.”

LYNX Outsourced Coding Services is a turnkey service. Performed by experienced clinical and medical records specialists, coders employ LYNX E/CodeTM ICD-9 and CPT coding software and assign codes based upon available patient documentation. LYNX assigns professional CPT codes (E&M and procedure) in accordance with current CMS documentation guidelines, CPT policy (published by the American Medical Association), American College of Emergency Physicians published policies, Correct Coding Initiative (published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) and LYNX coding guidelines. LYNX assigns ICD-9 codes in accordance with standard ICD-9 diagnosis coding conventions.

Through LYNX, HMH’s coding distribution will better align with patient acuity, decrease A/R days and will help minimize compliance risk by promoting accurate code assignment.