Our Medical Coding Partners
Ingram & Associates
In concert with its services partner Ingram & Associates, ZHealth provides related interventional radiology, vascular surgery, and cardiology consulting and educational services to hospitals, physician practices, and other providers nationwide. Ingram & Associates, based in Nashville, TN, is a national healthcare services provider and functions as the sole distributor of ZHealth services. Jointly, the two companies offer a wide range of specialty coding programs for interventional radiology, cardiology, and vascular surgery. Read more.
3M Health Information Services
ZHealth Publishing partners with 3M Health Information Systems (HIS) (a wholly owned subsidiary of 3M Company) to provide our coding books as part of 3M Encoder. Specifically, Dr. Z's Interventional Radiology Coding Reference is now included as part of 3M Encoder in its optional 3M(TM) Coding Reference Plus Software package.
3M HIS delivers comprehensive software and consulting services to help organizations worldwide improve documentation, quality, and financial performance across the healthcare continuum. 3M offers integrated solutions for transcription, speech recognition, clinical documentation improvement, documentation management, computer-assisted coding, quality, and revenue cycle management, effectively meeting the industry’s changing needs.
With twenty-five years of healthcare experience and expertise, 3M works as a trusted and stable business partner to provide reliable implementation, training, and support services.
American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC)
In 2008, ZHealth Publishing partnered with the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) to expand its certification offerings with the Certified Interventional Radiology Cardiovascular Coder (CIRCC) specialty.
The organizations formed a partnership to establish a specialized coding certification for individuals who can demonstrate expertise and excellence in the difficult coding area of interventional radiology coding. The CIRCC certification exam was launched in 2008 and is now offered in multiple sites across the country – including locations where ZHealth Publishing holds its live quarterly seminars.
In coordination with the AAPC and MedLearn, ZHealth Publishing also created a study guide and specialized training for the examination. This is a first-of-its-kind joint effort between two companies competing in the same marketplace to work together to support the profession and provide a much-needed and valuable mechanism to identify and reward individuals with exceptional talent and skill in coding complex interventional radiology and cardiology procedures.
In addition to the jointly developed CIRCC Study Guide, ZHealth Publishing now offers additional CIRCC-specific preparation courses.
