Computer-Assisted Coding
A-Life Hospital’s computer-assisted coding (CAC) solution, Actus, accelerates the coding processes within your health information management department without sacrificing accuracy or compliance by assisting coders with suggested and traceable reimbursable codes through our proprietary and patented Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology, LifeCode. Hospital coders simply sign in to Actus, A-Life’s complete coding suite to review LifeCode results, allowing coders to perform their daily tasks quickly and easily from the hospital or remotely.
Actus, combined with LifeCode, is the most widely accepted Computer-assisted Coding product in healthcare industry today. Actus was specifically built and designed for hospital coders and HIM departments to assist in addressing the difficulties and nuances of inpatient and facility coding.
Key features and benefits include:
- Ability to quickly find‚ review and verify electronic and scanned medical records
- Improve coder productivity to help compensate for coder shortages which currently exist in the marketplace
- Reduce coder overtime and contract coding services
- Enhance Case Mix Index (CMI) and shorten revenue cycle
- Reliable‚ accurate coding of in-patient and facility records
- Provide seamless integration with any encoder
- Reduce potential for auditing and reviews
For more than a decade, A-Life has been providing the healthcare industry with proven and reliable coding solutions that assist in the coding process and meet coders’ needs. A-Life processes in excess of five million transactions monthly, has thousands of users and provides coding services to more than 40,000 physicians nationwide.