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Mangum Community Hospital Secures PHNS for Remote Coding Support

DALLAS, TX- December 15, 2006 – In their efforts to maintain excellence as a healthcare provider, Mangum Community Hospital (MCH) has secured the services of PHNS to provide remote coding support for their Health Information Management (HIM) division using the PHNS CodeRemoteTM System.  PHNS will provide MCH with experienced, credentialed HIM professionals to review inpatient and outpatient medical records and apply appropriate billing and reimbursement codes.  The CodeRemoteTM System will enable MCH to scan their paper-based medical records into the CodeRemoteTM System, PHNS’ HIPAA compliant, web-based system.     

About MCH:  MCH is a 25-bed critical access community hospital in Mangum, Oklahoma.  MCH continues to provide a full array of healthcare services including general surgery, emergency medicine, sleep lab, laboratory, and physical therapy, as well as mobile mammography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) services, to the community of Mangum.

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) 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.