Our Mission

RMACI's Mission RMACI's mission is to promote excellence in the field of Women's Health billing and coding by serving as a partner in telling better patient stories.  Many people see coding as a burdensome task that one has to do in order to receive payment from third party payers. If you look at it that way, it's not very interesting. It's something you do because it is a necessary, but very distasteful, part of doing business in the medical field in the U.S. Because we don't like to do it very much, it produces a series of undesirable results... • We don’t understand it, so we don’t see its value. • We don’t value it, so we don’t study it. • We don’t study it, so we don’t excel at it. • We don’t excel at it, so we are tempted to take inappropriate shortcuts and not adhere to the highest standards. • We don’t adhere to the highest standards, so we are exposed to substandard outcomes and financial risk associated with audit and claim recoupment. However, what if you look at coding as telling the patient's story? Explaining the "who-what-where-when-how-why" in the most detailed and accurate way possible? When you approach coding from that perspective, you are mirroring the process that providers use to arrive at a diagnosis for the patient. The only difference is that you are using codes from prescribed code sets, instead of words, sentences, and paragraphs. If we see coding as telling a better story, then our coding will be more accurate and more ethically appropriate.

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