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WCH Account Specialist Julia KruglovaAPG CPT /HCPCS Billing CodeS9480 – Intensive Outpatient psychiatric services, per diem.NOTE: The S9480 code went into effect 1/1/2011; priorto that date if a program utilized a specific IOS trackthe program could claim two group services on onevisit date. A...

Mobility has become one of the main attributesof the efficient EHR. WCH Ismart electronic healthrecord allows providers to have access anytimeand anywhere to their clinical and financial data.We highly recommend using EHR on portabletechnology for access convenience and simplicityof use as opposed t...

Identify whether or the patient is new,existing or a referral Identify the specific reason for the patientvisit Record the patient’s full name as it isspelled on his/her insurance card Verify whether there has been anychange in the patient’s health insuranceinformation (For a re...

WCH offers training for you and your staffusing specialty tailored educational webinars.Webinars are available on topics of interest;you choose the topic or let us train you ontoday’s hottest topics. Our individual webinaror webinar series are designed specificallyto provide information to Hea...

Stop the Credentialing Madnesson the payers side!From the time WCH credentialing department was developed in 2001, many providers and healthcare practitioners benefited from excellent credentialing services. In the past 14 years, WCH credentialing team has grown to be an experienced and professional...

“Asset protection” is a term used to describe various legal methods of protecting personal or business assets from lawsuits and judgment creditors. While the strategies listed do not include all asset protection possibilities, the list below provides an overview of some of the types of a...

Medical billing is the processby which a medical biller convertsinformation about medicalservice, performed by healthcare providerinto appropriate claim format. Theduty of the medical biller is to ensure thatthe provided data is entered accurately,however in WCH the duties of the medicalbiller go be...

WCH Medical Billing Contract changes coming up January 2015Dear Clients, Effective January 1, 2015, WCH is making important changes to your existing billing agreement.WCH will be sending out updated billing agreements to you for signatures in the beginning of the Yew Year. Below, we have included ac...

Now when we have earned your confidence dealing with the most sensitive part of your business - your money, you can rely on us for all of your EHR needs.

Building specialty customized templates that will save you time! Here are new templates designed with the help of our clients.When our IT developers sat down with our health care specialist to design templates for our iSmart EHR, they had one question in mind, “how to construct a full medical ...

Medication History, Medication Adherence and E-Prescribing for Our Clients. Mandatory E-Prescribing - Beginning March 27, 2015, all prescriptions, including all controlled substances, must be transmitted electronically – paper prescriptions will no longer be acceptable. Are you ready? WCH EHR ...

As an official Electronic Health Record Vendor, WCH Service Bureau has obtained a Certificate of Authority.WCH has registered with the Tax Department and obtained a Certificate of Authority. The Certificate of Authority now obligates WCH to collect sales tax on its taxable sales and accept most New ...

WCH team wants to extend our congratulations to Oksana Pokoyeva, CPC, CPMA, CUC, for passing the Certified Urology Coder Exam and thus adding CUC to her title. This is an honor and a personal accomplishment for all of us as a company as well as for Oksana’s personal growth. Oksana’s hard...

As a result of growing interest in closed insurance panels, on Thursday July 31st, 2014, Olga Khabinskay, COO and credentialing specialists hosted a webinar providing detailed information about accessing closed insurance panels and unlocking additional revenue.When insurance companies deny your part...

As a financial advisor, I have daily discussions with people who ask me for help with building safe retirement for them and their families. This article is a short summary of my response to them. Building safe retirement requires a two-step process. First, an individual has to make a long-term commi...