What To Expect in 2022 Urgent Care Coding

It is already the end of 2021 and we are still trying to assess the impact that this pandemic has had on urgent care centers. Although patient volumes have stabilized, expectations have started to change a lot. Patients are now visiting urgent cares with demands of a tech savvy, service now, mobile dependent culture.

Today, urgent care centers aim to extend an exceptional service with patient experience. Understanding the needs of the patients and adapting to the same is what the new day will demand.

To enhance your engagement methods with your patients, you need to spend more time with your patients without worrying about backlog. At the end of the day, what you need is someone that can assist you with your urgent care coding priorities to secure quick and effective reimbursement.

The Medicare Physician fee Schedule ( MPFS) and its final rule has been issued on November 2nd 2021 by the CMS. The newest final rule is aiming to establish update to the practice expense RVU’s which will account for rising clinical labor pricing.

CMS is going to increase the allowable for administering hepatitis B, influenza, pneumococcal to $30 from $17.63 in 2021. Clearly there are a lot of changes happening around in E/M coding and as a provider you need expert urgent care coders that can help in delivering you true value.

However rising costs in labor, salary raise are all contributing to shortage. You need the expert intervention of a quality urgent care coding partner that can help you focus on your patients and worry less about what matters most, reimbursements!

How does Sunknowledge Deliver Excellence

One of the distinct advantages of working with us is our extensive experience in working with leading urgent care centers. In fact, we are serving the largest Urgent Care center in New York and also some of the biggest and the best across the country and have great references.

We are working with some of the leading names in the urgent care space and have great credentials. Our team reduces your operational costs by 70% with our superior ability to work as a reliable operational arm. We deliver actionable support in urgent care coding with our CPC certified coders that defines your claims and will reduce your denials once and for all.

So what are you waiting for! Speak to our team, take a look at our references and how we deliver error free charts with 99.99% accuracy and have transformed cash flow for the largest urgent care centers of the country. Focus on your patients while we take care of the rest!



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