RAC Audit and Appeal Services Now Offered by Intersect Healthcare

Baltimore, MD (Vocus/PRWEB) January 06, 2011

Intersect Healthcare, Inc., one of the nation's leading providers of Payor Compliance and Audit and Denial Management software for healthcare providers, today announced they have assembled the nation’s most highly specialized team of expert advocacy resources, VERACITY AppealMasters, to assist providers in responding to virtually every RAC Appeal Process and provide educational programs on constructing winning appeals.

“Medicaid RAC and other audit activities are predicted to heat up in 2011, and many healthcare facilities have already begun seeing strong evidence of this. Wouldn’t it feel great to have a team of dedicated, experienced, reliable appeals experts lined up and ready to step in and help when you need them?” asks Mark McGraw, Vice President of Audit & Appeal Services.

“VERACITY AppealMasters will provide an intensive, timely, and exhaustive appeals process invoking a combination of medical, technical, managed care and legal resources to formulate a winning appeal” stated Mr. McGraw. “VERACITY AppealMasters’ team of medical necessity, documentation and coding review experts were hired by specialty to draw upon individual experiences. Each specialist has been actively involved in creating RAC Coding Appeal templates to support specific audit appeals.”

Mr. McGraw went on to comment that VERACITY AppealMasters’ focused goal is Performance Enhancement - to prevent future takebacks and denials. “We provide Appeal Education to the healthcare providers’ appeals staff to help construct winning RAC appeal letters, offer RAC appeal letter templates with input from industry experts, and provide affordable, easy-to-use and effective tools and services to correct potential flaws in current coding or clinical documentation processes.”

The VERACITY AppealMasters team is led by Denise Wilson, RN, RRT, MS, who was appointed as Director of Appeal Services and brings over 28 years of experience in healthcare management. Denise has extensive experience as a successful Medicare appeals specialist and has personally managed over 350 appeal cases with a 95% success rate at the ALJ level. Denise shares her knowledge and experience of appeals processes and the design of successful appeals through FREE webinars and onsite education programs.

About Intersect Healthcare
Intersect Healthcare is a leading provider of risk management, compliance and audit management solutions currently licensed for to over one hundred healthcare providers nationwide. To learn more about Intersect Healthcare and the VERACITY™ suite of products, please visit http://www.intersecthealthcare.com.

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