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Hamot Medical Center Selects PHNS for Onsite and Remote Coding Compliance Audits

DALLAS, TX- April 2, 2007 - Hamot Medical Center, a 343-bed hospital, Erie, Pennsylvania, has selected PHNS to provide both an onsite audit of inpatient coding services and a remote audit of interventional radiology coding services of its Health Information Management (HIM) department. PHNS will provide Hamot Medical Center with experienced, credentialed HIM professionals to perform thorough reviews of both inpatient and interventional radiology medical records to ensure accuracy in documentation and applied coding, as well as to provide any necessary recommendations and coding staff education.  

About Hamot Medical Center:  Hamot Medical Center (HMC), which celebrated its 125th anniversary in July 2006, continues to provide comprehensive, superior healthcare services for people in Erie County, Pennsylvania, as well as the Tri-State (New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio) area. In 2006, HMC was rated by U.S. News & World Report as one of America's Best Hospitals - Heart and Heart Surgery and received from HealthGrades™ the Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™ and Cardiac Care, Critical Care, Gastrointestinal Care, Pulmonary Care, Stroke Care, Vascular Care Excellence Awards™. In additional to providing exceptional healthcare in these areas, HMC also provides extraordinary care in a variety of other fields, including general surgery, orthopedics, internal medicine, ophthalmology, emergency medicine, nuclear medicine and related diagnostic services, rehabilitation services, and occupational medicine.

About PHNS:  PHNS provides comprehensive healthcaring solutions for hospitals including information technology, health information management (including medical record management and storage, transcription, coding, release of information and electronic medical record services), advisory services and receivables management services. Serving more than 400 U.S. hospitals, PHNS creates business-healthy hospitals by improving operations, enhancing technology, providing capital dollars and increasing cash on hand. This allows hospitals to focus on their core competency--patient care. PHNS is a national healthcare services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. See www.phns.com for additional information about PHNS.