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Coding Gaps Affect Medical Billing for More Than 2 Million Healthcare Professionals, According to ABC Coding Solutions.


ZipClaims.com - Powered by ABC Codes ABC Codes are five-digit Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant alpha codes (e.g., AAAAA) used by licensed and non-licensed healthcare practitioners on standard healthcare claim forms (e.g.  and Technology, Offers Non-MD Healthcare Professionals, Like Advanced Practice Nurses, an Innovative Online Medical Billing Service for Filing Electronic Healthcare Claims

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- ABC ABC
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 Coding Solutions announces ZipClaims.com, a new online claim filing system, designed to empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems  over 2 million healthcare practitioners to transmit standard medical billing. Claims data from the system will also identify cost effective options to medical care. According to according to
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 the company, ABC codes help bring non-physicians into the insurance-industry mainstream.

"We found that nurses, counselors, chiropractors and many other integrative health professionals are frequently not reimbursed by insurance companies. Without ABC codes, these professions are often reimbursed at the wrong rate and their payments are delayed. With ZipClaims.com - powered by ABC codes and new coding technology - all that will change," explained Melinna Giannini, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of ABC Coding Solutions.

ZipClaims.com is currently targeting holistic Holistic
A practice of medicine that focuses on the whole patient, and addresses the social, emotional, and spiritual needs of a patient as well as their physical treatment.

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 practitioners who do not file Medicare claims. These providers can immediately file standard electronic claims to private insurance companies. By 2nd quarter of 2008, ZipClaims.com will be serving practitioners who bill both private and Medicare insurers.

ZipClaims.com offers non-physician professionals thousands of precise ABC codes to accurately document their care. Before ZipClaims.com, these professionals had to rely totally on a limited number of medical codes that do not accurately describe their treatments. ZipClaims.com removes the coding barrier by mapping ABC codes and related technology to HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health,  mandated medical codes required for electronic medical billing. These ZipClaims.com features generate claims that are less expensive to process and easier to pay.

"The results for my clients have been great," remarks Ephimia Morphew-Lu, M.S. Psy, C.N., Nutritional Psychologist. "Major insurance companies and health plans are reimbursing my clients for the first time."

For more information about ABC codes visit, www.ABCcodes.com. For more information about ZipClaims.com, visit www.ZipClaims.com.
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