iSource offers genuine expertise and an excellent track record in Medical transcription, business and Legal transcription services.

iSource provides affordable and superior medical transcription service with our specialized workforce. iSource has successful integrated advancements in Information technology to its transcription services. We offer our service, as a one-stop-shop for all Medical Transcription needs.

Our medical transcriptionists translate and edit recorded dictation by physicians and other healthcare providers regarding patient assessment and treatment. Using a transcribing machine with headset and foot pedal, medical transcriptionists listen to recordings by physicians and other healthcare professionals dictating a variety of medical reports such as emergency room visits, diagnostic imaging studies, operations, chart reviews, and final summaries. To understand and accurately transcribe dictated reports into a format that is clear and comprehensible for the reader, the medical transcriptionist understand the language of medicine, anatomy and physiology, diagnostic procedures, and treatment, and  translate medical jargon and abbreviations into their expanded forms. Editing as necessary for grammar and clarity, the medical transcriptionist transcribes the dictated reports and returns them in either printed or electronic form to the dictator for review and signature, or correction. These reports eventually become a part of the patient's permanent file. 

Services in Medical Transcription
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• General Correspondence
• History and Physicals
• Patient Progress Reports
• Consultations and discharge Summaries
• Chart Notes and Narratives
• Radiology Reports
• Hospital Progress Notes and Procedure Notes
• ER Reports and Surgical Procedures
• Operative Reports
• Independent Medical Evaluations and Peer Reviews

iSource 's mission is to provide our clients with acceptable medical transcription services, healthcare management services at an affordable price.

iSource offers a number of significant factors that makes us our customer's choice for their next medical transcription service. We give international quality within an affordable budget, and our prompt deliverability has made us a top medical Transcription service provider in India .

We believe in accuracy and specialized attention is given to every detail. We have Excellent English speaking work force who can deliver their best in the field and assure you their best service.

Medical Transcription Process
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Medical Transcription service from iSource gives the valuable customers a complete transcription service to medical coding and Medical Billing service.

The process of medical transcription is transferring this information using word processing.

Total Dictation & Transcription Solutions

Record Conversion & Migration

Electronic Medical Recording

We Maintain & Customize EMR For Your Practice

Maintaining Patients Record

Maintaining Patients progress

We maintain complete secrecy of the patient's records

Workforce
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Our work force consists of Graduates in science with good command over English. Our work force is dedicated to welfare of our customers and offers their best service in Medical Transcription. Our Medical transcription service uses state-of-the-art technology, infrastructure, and highly qualified and skilled manpower to provide end-to-end solutions for our customers.

iSource offers complete medical transcription solution. Our dictation and transcription services can manage every needs and requirement of a big clients usually hospitals and other health centers in U.S. or Abroad.

Total Dictation & Transcription Solution
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Dictations can be given through a digital recorder or in PDA the data's are then transferred to Transcriptionist to transcribe into M.S.Word or PDF file format. The voice files can also be uploaded to our server. The Voice files in the server are then sent to the Transcriptionist for processing.

Electronic Medical Recording Services
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iSource Offers inexpensive solution for maintaining records of your patients. Our application developers can customize the electronic medical recording service application either in windows and Linux based systems or in a UNIX server. For further details please mail your enquiries to us.

We Maintain & Customize EMR For Your Practice
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iSource offers complete maintenance of your record and customizes your electronic medical records. We convert all your data's into M.S.Word or Excel sheet or in PDF format or even in XML or HTML format for making your data's easy to use. We also offer complete back up solution to maintain your data.

Medical transcription is the most significant part of EMR. For years, we can input all transcriptions, both old and new, into EMR. The EMR allows you to add, edit, and delete records, notes and other attachments. Documents are optionally converted into PDF with electronic signature, which can be emailed as password-protected zipped attachments. 

Record Conversion & Migration
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We have sound expertise in record conversion and migration service. iSource thus can offer complete medical transcription service at an affordable price.

Medical Coding
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The complex medical procedures in medical fields should be organized and differentiated, the medical coding services provides the complex service of organizing and brings clarity and accuracy to the medical field. iSource can offer this complex service at an affordable price.

Why Medical Coding Is Important?

The medical field became more complex and sophisticated in the 20 th century. The research by various researchers found out many new diseases and abnormalities due to explosion of advancement in scientific field and media. They were constantly making refinements to the procedures adopted by physicians. This paved the way for new drug discovery and various medical treatment procedures. This led to difficulty for physicians to distinguish one procedure from another. This led to physicians being confused because of lot of difficulty in finding exact description for a medicinal procedure. This led great dissatisfaction for physicians who were forced to borrow funds for their practicing due to delay in payment for their service.

The explosion in technological advancement in field of computers led to medical coding service, which greatly helped these physicians. The computers were used to devise and describe the various numbers of medical and surgical procedures and diagnosing techniques. These procedures were stored in computers and were assigned various codes to facilitate the exact determination of nature of the procedure they have to follow. These coding systems were further improved and classified as Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) and International Classifications of Diseases (ICD). These coding mechanism, thus led to some satisfaction in getting payments for physicians and patients.

Medical Coding In India
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The outsourcing by hospitals and physicians in U.S to India is increasing because of abundant availability of human resources and affordable transcription and coding services. This saved lot of resources for clients by avoiding errors in coding. The non-availability of trained and experienced coders and higher cost for medical coders are driving more and more clients to India for their outsourcing services.

Indian Service Providers are eliminating the recruiting and training costs for the Clients, and reducing the labor costs and improve the accuracy of the coding service.

Indian coders are hired due to their professional, skills and they are well versed in international coding practices. A hospital intake form or charge sheet is batched and arrives on the desk of a coder who will abstract the following handwritten information, convert it to code and get it in front of data entry. Due to availability of coders certified in AAPC (American Association of Professional Coders) and having considerable experience. They do the coding for the handwritten physician's diagnosis on the charge sheet.

iSource also ensures accuracy in code selections causing easier billing process with quicker and better reimbursement. We constantly develop and refine our coding procedures and contract ICD, CPT coding resources.

Coding Process
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There are some technical procedures to be followed in Coding Process which can be listed as below:

• Precoding of the charge tickets and Coding of the Diagnosis and the Procedure with reference.
• The compatibility of the diagnosis and modifiers in relation to the procedure are verified with the procedure codes.
• The coded codes are verified.
• The coded files are strictly checked for Quality and complete verification of coding and the pre-coding with all the references are done.
• Quality Audit is done and clarifications and doubts are noted and put into documentation and sent to the client for feedbacks.
• Teleconferencing with the clients is done to get feedback on work done.

Quality - Adherence to International Standards

• The iSource uses most up to date books and software's are used.
• The codings are done with feedback and preference of client's requirements and standard HIPAA regulation are ensured.
• Coding staffs are given extensive training under coding experts from U.S. and Certified coders are available to monitor the work regularly.
• CPT, ICD-9, and HCPCS coding across various specialties.
• Insurance and governmental regulatory requirements and Payer-specific coding requirements are thought for the employees.
• The employees are given thorough training on usage of software's like ENCODERPRO, CODERITE etc.

Our coders are AAPC (American Association of Professional Coders) certified and have required experience. They do the coding for the handwritten physician's diagnosis on the charge sheet. Medical Coder determines the codes according to patients record.

Utmost importance is given for coding patient's records to get reimbursement from the Insurance Company for the services rendered by the physician.

iSource coders are extremely skilled and provide quality results within the stipulated time. The codings for multi-specialty clients like cardiology, radiology, neurology, and infectious diseases, pathology and oncology are also done.

Benefits for Customers
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iSource guarantee 95-98% accuracy and compliance with all government regulations. Importance for low denial and clean claims are given preference.

The experience and technological innovations of our workforce will ensure in getting optimal revenue.

The coding methodology is done in transparency to give clients access and feedbacks from clients are welcomed to get low errors and high consistency.

We eliminate recruiting and training costs for clients and give a highly efficient coding service at an affordable price.

So for your transcription or coding or billing service please mail us your requirement and doubts we would be happy to help in every way.

Medical Billing
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Medical billing is defined as medical practice management and doctor's key to getting paid. This can be further described, as when a doctor treats a patient they must then file an insurance claim for the reimbursement of the fee. This claim is typically made in a paper format and sent through the regular mail. This process is time taking and also complex which results in less timely collections and diminishing cash flow for the doctor. Although most doctor's offices or hospitals formally request the patients that payment be made at the time a medical service provided in order to minimize billing, every medical offices have a need to maintain patient's financial accounts for collecting money.  

A medical-billing service includes electronic insurance claims processing and patient services for doctors, chiropractors, dentists, physical therapists and other health care providers. Trained professional medical billing centers provides complete practice management services to their clients. They process and transmit completed claims, via computer modem, to a center where it is to be processed for claims and insurance carriers. Clearinghouse enables us to perform dial-up and submission of the claims; these claims are then distributed to each individual carrier. System also generates a submission report to reflect the status of the claims.

Doctors and other healthcare providers are required to wait for several months for payment on insurance claims submitted for the services they have provided. As a result, some physicians are forced to borrow funds or loans at high interest rates to cover their monthly operating costs. Often the clerical staffs at the doctor's office are hired for administrative purposes and are made to spend their valuable time generating paper medical claims when they could be completing more productive work.

If thi s was not all, as per the current statistic from the insurance industry 30% of paper claims are rejected suspended or are never even processed. It's costly and time consuming to track, research and resubmit these claims, ultimately resulting in less income being collected. These errors can be eliminated with trained assistance in medical billing. With the electronic claims service the rejection rate is reduced to less than two percent. It is imperative to add here that claims still continue to be submitted both, via paper and electronically, even as Insurance companies strive hard for all electronic submission.  

Top it all with all other value added service that a medical-billing service provides, doctors can just focus on what they do best; provide top quality medical care. Here are few services that billing company can provide apart from claims submission: 

Complete Practice management, Generating Patient statements, Answering patient queries, Handling Aging claims, Appeals, Handling denials/resubmission Scheduling, Coding. Medical Transcription.

Medical claims and patient billing are the heart for any physician's practice. As there are more than one million health care providers, and that number continues to grow. 

Government regulations, increasing wages and competition are forcing all areas of medical practices to cut costs while maintaining the highest level of quality care to their patients. Outsourcing to a professionally trained medical-billing service is a profitable alternative in handling their patient insurance accounts. This allows medical practices to attend to patients, not paperwork. The insurance industry is striving to become 100 percent paperless. Doctors across the nation are in a panic because of their inability to computerize their offices and hire trained staff to maintain the new billing system. So there will always be a need for medical services; therefore, medical-billing services will always be in high demand. 

Medical billing services
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iSource Medical billing services:-

Our process are highly efficient and timely service are offered our process is highly effective beginning with timely billing of your charges and concluding with prompt delivery at an affordable service.

• The timeliness of our process is unparalleled. We have the manpower to enter your charges into the system and get the resulting claim or bill to the carrier or patient within four to twenty-four hours of receiving your complete information
• Electronic claims are delivered instantaneously to the appropriate payer
• Within one to twenty-four hours of submission we are alerted whether or not a claim has been rejected
• Any rejections are immediately investigated and reprocessed. Our consistent follow-through procedures ensure rapid maximum reimbursement
• Our specialists are up to speed on the latest coding changes and modifications and use specially customized A/R software to track your balances .  

Our patient billing strategy balances courtesy with persistence. Successfully navigating the fine line between alienation and collection, our goal is to maintain an excellent provider/patient relationship while still collecting complete fees.

MT Infrastructure
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iSource has world-class infrastructure for Transcription services, our work force more than the infrastructure are valuable for our principle of efficient work. iSource has all required infrastructure like hardware and software's for doing the transcription services. Our Transcription service units are clean and spacious with a homely feeling for our employees. We work 24 hrs per day with 7 days/week.

We have a complete broadband connection to ensure uninterrupted and faster connectivity. We have a efficient backup system for uninterrupted power supply. Our software's are customized to encode, enter and verify data. iSource has efficient professionals developing and maintaining software's and tools for efficient transcription service. The output data or results are delivered on a high capacity disk and cartridge tapes or CD's and they are also transferred via FTP on the Internet for immediate delivery of report.

The company is located in chennai with excellent infrastructure. This city is one of the metro cities in India . This city has serene and calm feeling; this city is a combination of
Old architecture and modern architecture. This city has top of line colleges like I.I.T and Anna University which features in top ten colleges in India .

This city has abundant manpower with English fluency and tech savvy graduates. The iSource thus is proud to have great work force. The Universities and colleges in this city is the feeding ground for manpower requirement in other tech cities in India . iSource thus has an enviable position of having abundant human resource for its technical operation.

This city has some of the best electricity supply and government initiatives for outsourcing industries. We have good networking and communication facility for smooth operation of our transcription service with technical people keeping our infrastructure floating with out any break down or other disruption due to crashing of PC's or communication network.

Information technology infrastructures
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High Speed optical fiber network in Chennai:

Chennai has major fiber optic network connections from East Asia connecting Indonesia , Singapore and other major cities to chennai. This undersea fiber optic connectivity will make chennai a major city for outsourcing companies. There are two major players lying under sea cable network, which will multiply the broadband connection speeds, which will increase the connectivity speeds into 8 tetra bits per second.

These plans by Indian telecom majors such as Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) and bharti setting up chennai as NOC Network operation center has made it a favorite destination for every outsourcing majors in India. These developments in chennai has given iSource unlimited connectivity at high speeds thus enabling us to give our clients an efficient, spontaneous and affordable outsourcing.

Power Supply:

Our chennai center has good power supply due to excellent planning by government of India by commissioning high-speed thermal reactor in kalpakkam looking after power requirement not only in Chennai but also to other places and states neighboring Tamil Nadu.

This advantage gives chennai a major advantage over other cities in India . Our centers are all well equipped with uninterrupted power supply units to combat any power supply failures.

Some of the infrastructure facility and advantage our clients get in iSource can be listed as below:

• High-speed dedicated satellite data link for communication purposes
• A standby ISDN Internet connection.
• Well-designed office environments giving its employees less stressful condition thus making employees work efficient and reliable.
• Excellent Networking setup and dedicated server for transcription services.
• Every PC's have all latest operating systems and up to date software technology.
• Transcribed reports on the very next business day service are available.
• Affordable transcription cost
• High quality - accuracy reports
• Reliable service
• Assured confidentiality & security
• Immediate delivery of service on request.

Making our selves up to date on latest American standard and regulation for transcription service.

Our efficient planning in execution of transcription service backs up these international infrastructure facilities. Thus offering our clients complete satisfaction of our services.

Our management is committed to render quality services with experienced staff to meet high standard.

Dictation analyst and trainers giving our work force every available support for them. We also receive dictation via Internet connection to make speedy transcription service. And transcribed data's are transmitted to client via Internet for urgent and spontaneous delivery.

Quality Control and Quality Audit:

Our Quality Control Department checks every transcribed data's. And quality audit is done on the work finished.

Please feel free to have your doubts and enquiries cleared by us, just mail iSource and our experts will get in touch with you.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

[pr: hip'-ah] The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. HIPAA is a federal law that was designed to allow portability of health insurance between jobs. In addition, it required the creation of a federal law to protect personally identifiable health information; if that did not occur by a specific date (which it did not), HIPAA directed the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to issue federal regulations with the same purpose. DHHS has issued HIPAA privacy regulations (the HIPAA Privacy Rule) as well as other regulations under HIPAA.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996

HIPAA stands for "Healthcare Insurance Portability Accountability Act", a federal law requiring hospitals, physicians, and managed care companies to adopt medical information security, privacy and data standards over the next 2-3 years or face stiff penalties.

The abbreviation for the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, also known as the Kassebaum-Kennedy act, after the two senators who spearheaded the bill. Passed in 1996 to help people buy and keep health insurance, even when they have serious health conditions, the law sets basic requirements that health plans must meet.

HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Generally, HIPAA restricts the use of preexisting condition exclusions, creates special enrollment periods and prohibits discrimination based on health-status related conditions in enrollment and premiums. HIPAA also creates an obligation for most group health plans or their insurers to provide certificates of creditable coverage to individuals who ceased to be covered by a group health plan. Administration of the certificate requirements is often coordinated with administration of COBRA. Because HIPAA requires a certificate to be issued not only when coverage first ceases, but also when COBRA coverage ceases, HIPAA effectively creates a new notice requirement in COBRA administration when COBRA coverage expires or is terminated.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a federal law that prevents insurance companies from denying, or charging more for, insurance to most people with "pre-existing conditions."

Among other provisions, it allows for continuous health coverage when transferring employment in some situations. It also standardizes certain provisions of Long-Term Care Insurance policies. Under specified circumstances, HIPAA policies enjoy the advantages of a portion of the premium (according to age) to be used as an additional medical expense to provide income tax relief if a person itemizes medical expenses on Federal Income Tax. Benefits from a HIPAA policy will not be considered taxable income.

The Kennedy-Kassebaum Act, better know as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA for short, is designed to protect health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs, as well as provide minimum hospital stays for maternity patients. HIPAA has been expanded over the years to also include EDI.

Stands for Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996. The act is intended to provide protection from pre-existing condition limitations for employees and their dependents when moving from job to job. HIPAA prohibits discrimination in enrollment and premiums against employees and dependents based on health status.

This act became a law on January 1, 1997. The act states the requirements that a long term care policy must follow in order that the premiums paid may be deducted as medical expenses and benefits not paid be considered as taxable income

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 is intended to reduce the costs and administrative burdens of health care by making possible the standardized, electronic transmission of many administrative and financial transactions that are currently carried out manually on paper.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The Administrative Simplification (AS) provisions of this Act are intended to reduce the costs and administrative burdens of health care by making possible the standardized, electronic transmission of many administrative and financial transactions that are currently carried out manually on paper. http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/admnsimp/nprm/txlist.htm

= Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, sometimes known as Kassebaum-Kennedy, after the two senators who spearheaded the bill. Passed in 1996 to help people buy and keep health insurance, even when they have serious health conditions, the law sets a national floor for health insurance reforms. Since states can and have modified and expanded upon these provisions, consumers' protections vary from state to state.

Federal legislation requiring all insurers who offer individual coverage to provide their two most popular plans on a guaranteed acceptance basis to all applicants whose group coverage (including COBRA) ended within 63 days prior to application for coverage.More info

Federal law that protects health coverage when the insured changes or loses a job. This is done by guaranteeing portability ? defined in this case as using previous health coverage (the coverage possessed before leaving employment) to reduce or eliminate any preexisting-condition exclusions that may apply under future insurance plans. This does not mean current coverage is maintained after leaving employment, although various state laws allow for coverage to continue on a temporary basis.

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