Reducing coding costs by 35% while ensuring documentation accuracy for a large primary care physician group

About the physician group

This client is one of the largest primary care-led clinician enterprises in the country. It delivers care through traditional free-standing clinics, co-located clinics, and a management services organization infrastructure built to succeed in risk-adjusted reimbursement models.

The coding challenge behind rapid growth

As the enterprise expanded quickly, its coding operation needed to keep pace. The following two priorities defined the challenge:

Benchmarking and governing coding at the clinician level

IKS Health deployed its coding solution to analyze the enterprise’s historical coding patterns and pinpoint the documentation gaps that needed attention. IKS Health also:

The results after standardizing coding operations

The partnership lowered coding costs, strengthened clinical documentation, and gave the enterprise a governance model it could rely on as it continued to grow. Alongside the cost savings, coding accuracy improved across the enterprise, and documentation gap closures secured ongoing coding compliance.

35%

Reduction in coding costs

10%

Improvement in work RVUs per visit