New Web-Based Service Helps Hospitals Reduce the Risk of Medicare Overpayments, Rejected Claims and Other Billing Problems

Washington, DC, July 24, 2008 — Atlantic Information Services, Inc. (AIS), publisher of industry-leading health compliance information, and Strategic Management Systems, Inc. (SMSInc.), a top national health care compliance consulting firm, are pleased to announce the launch of High-Risk Areas in Medicare Billing: Compliance and Auditing Tools for Hospitals and Health Systems.

This powerful new Web-based subscription service is designed to help hospitals and health systems avoid potentially enormous overpayments, delayed payments, rejected claims and other high-risk billing issues. For more information, or to demo this exciting Web service, go to www.MedicareRiskAreas.com.
 
This user-friendly Web site is packed with valuable tools that can be downloaded, adapted and incorporated into a hospital’s compliance programs. It identifies — and provides practical tools to help hospitals with the most serious Medicare billing risks they face, in these and numerous other areas:

• Observation and admissions
• Length-of-stay issues
• Present-on-admission indicators
• Medical necessity and documentation
• Drugs, biologicals and medical devices
• Transfers and discharges
• Medicare secondary payer

In addition to the comprehensive Web site, subscribers to High-Risk Areas in Medicare Billing also receive e-mail alerts when major news breaks and a monthly Current Developments newsletter — also archived on the Web site — that tracks CMS transmittals, related payer alerts and other government fraud alerts.

Go to www.MedicareRiskAreas.com for a demo of this powerful new compliance tool.
 
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