PHILADELPHIA – Rural, urban and teaching hospitals are among the facilities named the top coding hospitals in the country.
Ingenix, a healthcare IT company in Eden Prairie, Minn., released its fourth annual report Top 200 Coding Hospitals in the U.S. last month at the American Health Information Management Association National Convention here.
The report ranks hospitals by the completeness and accuracy of their medical coding practices used to bill Medicare for inpatient medical services.
The four categories and the top-ranking hospital are:
- Rural, non-teaching: Spring-field Hospital, Springfield, Vt.
- Urban, non-teaching: Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Fresno, Calif.
- Minor teaching: Kaiser Found-ation Hospital, Panorama, Calif.
- Major teaching: John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Chicago.
A total of 2,921 hospitals were included in the analysis and divided into four categories to account for variations in the populations served by the different types of hospitals.
Ingenix used its Hospital Benchmarks.com software to compile the top 200 report and determine the rankings.
“This year’s Top 200 report comes at a pivotal time for the industry as hospitals prepare for Medicare’s transition to a severity-adjusted reimbursement system that will substantially change coding practices,” said Stephen Greenberg, senior vice president in the Provider Solutions Group at Ingenix.
