Changelog

Both capabilities below are off unless your organization asks for them. Nothing changes on your claims until then.

A documentation check before a post-operative pain block is billed separately. Your organization declares, per payer type, which evidence must be in the record. The choices are a surgeon order or request, acceptance of transfer of care, a completed consult, a signed block consent, and a separate procedure note. One scan of the whole record checks for that evidence after the claim is built. When evidence is missing, your organization decides the outcome. The block either stays billable and the claim carries a compliance alert, or the block moves to the non-billable list with an informational alert that explains why. The alert names the payer, the evidence found, and the evidence still missing. A record that contains handwritten documents is never moved to non-billable automatically, because a text scan cannot verify marks on paper.

Coding guidance written for your organization. The autocoder can apply your own coding guidance on top of the standard guidance, on your cases only. It covers your guidance for individual codes in anesthesia code selection, your guidance for individual codes in the diagnosis review, and your own instructions for the coding steps. Coverage today is anesthesia.

What to look out for: ask your Hank representative if you want either capability turned on for your organization.