Delivering Wide-Ranging Benefits

• Reduces coding inaccuracies to help ensure consistent application of complex medical coding systems
• Minimizes costly training and retraining
• Eliminates the annual cost spent on coding books
• Reduces the time-consuming use of confusing indexes and tabs
• Improves the quality of clinical coding information for payors' reporting needs
• Provides a single, accurate source for all coding needs, whether for an individual department or across several diverse departments

Ensuring the Most Current Codes
The Autocoder database is updated twice a year so the most current codes are at payors' fingertips. With hundreds of thousands of codes and descriptions in its database, Autocoder supports all nationally recognized systems, including:

• Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)
• Level II Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS)
• International Classification of Diseases Clinical Modification (ICD-CM)
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) IV
• Code on Dental Procedures and Nomenclature (CDT)

To ensure the most specific level of coding possible, Autocoder issues a prompt for more information when it is necessary.

Translating Medical Term Variations
Autocoder contains three essential components that automatically translate possible variations in medical terminology into accurate codes:

• Natural Language Process (NLP): This proprietary component recognizes and translates millions of variations, including synonyms, eponyms, abbreviations and misspellings. It includes nearly 1,000 common medical abbreviations and more than 25,000 misspelled words.
• Word Decipher: This component helps translate hard-to-read, handwritten notes by searching for any words that share some of the same letters as the indecipherable phrase.
• Code Validation: This component quickly displays code descriptions for validation purposes, with information supplied for deleted codes as well as cross-referenced codes.

Making Conversion Simple
With the optional Procedure Code Crosswalk component, payors can easily convert ICD-DM procedure codes to CPT or vice versa, an especially valuable feature when information is pre-coded without supporting documentation. Further, the component readily adjusts for one-to-one, one-to-none or one-to-many conversion possibilities.