Ochsner Medical Center Selects PHNS for Coding Compliance Audits

Ochsner Medical Center-New Orleans, a 473-bed acute care facility and a member of the Ochsner Health System, has selected PHNS to provide comprehensive coding auditing services for its Health Information Management (HIM) department. PHNS will provide Ochsner Medical Center with experienced, credentialed HIM professionals to perform thorough reviews of medical record coding to ensure accuracy in documentation and applied coding, as well as to provide any necessary recommendations and coding staff education.

About Ochsner Health System: Ochsner Health System (Ochsner) is a non-profit, academic, multi-specialty, healthcare system. Ochsner has grown to become one of the largest healthcare systems in the region with over 7,000 employees, including 600 physicians in 80 medical specialties and subspecialties. Ochsner conducts over 750 ongoing clinical research trials annually, is one of the largest non-university based physician training centers in the nation with over 900 medical residents in 2006 and 400 allied health students, and has been ranked “The Best Place to Work in New Orleans” both locally and nationally. See www.ochsner.org for more information about Ochsner Health System.

About PHNS: PHNS provides comprehensive healthcaring solutions for hospitals including information technology, health information management (including medical record management and storage, transcription, coding, release of information and electronic medical record services), advisory and receivables management services. Serving more than 400 U.S. hospitals, PHNS creates business-healthy hospitals by improving operations, enhancing technology and increasing cash on hand. This allows hospitals to focus on their core competency–patient care. PHNS is a national healthcare services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. See www.phns.com for additional information about PHNS.