RED BANK, N.J., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovative Health Solutions and MediRegs, Inc., both leading providers of healthcare information technology, today announced the introduction of a new knowledge-based compliance and reimbursement product that combines regulatory information sources with reimbursement and coding tools.
Fred Stodolak, CEO of Innovative Health Solutions, and Steve Lefar, president of MediRegs, Inc., jointly made the announcement. They said the new product, called CliniGuide Plus, combines the regulatory sources from MedRegs, Inc. with the coding and reimbursement tools from Innovative Health Solutions to provide a single-source, enterprise-wide solution with simultaneous access for a variety of users within an organization.
“We believe that CliniGuide Plus is the most comprehensive source of compliance resources and reimbursement tools on the market today,” said Mr. Stodolak. “We took our former product, CliniGuide, and added the vastly expansive collection of regulatory information from MediRegs and combined it with our powerful coding, compliance and reimbursement solutions.”
“CliniGuide Plus is the broadest, deepest and most accurate set of regulatory, reimbursement and coding sources,” said Mr. Lefar.
Powered by MedRegs, Inc., a leading provider of regulatory, reimbursement and compliance portal services for healthcare, the CliniGuide Plus product has among other constantly updated sources, State Administrative Codes and Medicaid, complete HIPAA and PPS collections, CMS manuals, transmittals and notifications, the Federal Register, and the complete Code of Federal Regulations. Reimbursement and coding tools include, among others, HCPCS integrated into LCDs and CMS manuals, AHA Coding Clinic(TM), NCCI Code Pair Checking, Medicaid Fee Schedules, plus RVU calculators, DRG and APC Groupers and calculators.
“With its online capability, organizations can now save time and money in relying on a single source for the most accurate and accurate information -- updated daily -- to make consistently informed decisions and judgments on compliance, reimbursement and billing issues,” said Mr. Lefar. “We are pleased to have been a part of this development process.”
ABOUT IHS
Innovative Health Solutions, LLC, is an information technology firm providing multiple platform coding, compliance, reimbursement and decision support solutions to more than 30% of the nation’s general acute care hospitals as well as to leading managed care and health information technology companies. IHS assists healthcare organizations improve cash flow, reimbursement, profitability, coding quality and compliance and helps them in making informed decisions.
ABOUT MEDIREGS
MediRegs, Inc. is the leading provider of regulatory and compliance databases to regulatory professionals throughout the health, life science, medical, and food industries in the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world. MediRegs’ dedicated staff of editors and software professionals has developed and maintains more than 2,000 collections of regulatory data. MediRegs has over 500 clients including leading pharmaceutical companies, medical device makers, consumer product companies, nationally recognized providers, more than 11 Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans, 15 of the top 25 healthcare law firms and many leading consulting firms.
Innovative Health Solutions, LLC
CONTACT: Fred Stodolak, CEO, of Innovative Health Solutions, LLC,+1-866-822-6700; or Steven Lefar, President, of MediRegs, Inc.,+1-800-808-6800, ext. 4