CODAPEDIA™ ANNOUNCED, WIKI FOR CODING AND MEDICAL REIMBURSEMENT

Project Calls for “Codapedists”

PHOENIX, MD (January 14, 2009)

Greenbranch Publishing and Betsy Nicoletti, of Springfield, VT, today announced the formation of Codapedia™ the largest collaborative online encyclopedia for medical coding and reimbursement for physician services.

Codapedia™ will launch in April, 2009; the preview site becomes available today at www.codapedia.com.

“Codapedia™ is a wikipedia for physician services, providing free, user-generated content. The easy-to-access content will feature expert articles, forums, resources and links to definitive citations. Advertisers will pay to place ads on the site,” said Betsy Nicoletti, Founder, “And the centerpiece of Codapedia™ will be the feature of video advertising.”

“Coders often have very limited budgets for to pay for coding resources, and yet they want to be accurate and compliant in their coding,” Nicoletti continued, “Codapedia™ will offer them two important opportunities: to share their hard-found expertise with other coders and to find knowledge that they need to do their jobs.”

In anticipation of its launch in April, 2009, Codapedia™ is tapping into a community of knowledgeable coders and experts, “Codapedists,” who will contribute non-copyrighted information to a searchable database.

“Codapedia™ will be a vital tool for physicians, coders, and anyone in the medial practice who is charged with helping physicians to get paid for the work that they do,” said Nancy Collins, President of Greenbranch Publishing. “Advertisers who wish to provide information about their services and solutions can also help to build the site through content, banner ads and online videos.”

Interested parties are asked to visit www.codapedia.com, enter their email address, to be notified when Codapedia goes live.

About Codapedia.com

Codapedia.com is a collaborative effort to build and support a community of volunteers to create the world’s best and most comprehensive resource for coding and reimbursement for physician services and to make it freely available on www.codapedia.com.

The result of this effort will be to transform how medical executives, physicians and industry will acquire and understand information about coding and physician reimbursement. Codapedia™ is created in association with Betsy Nicoletti, MS, CPC, and President of Medical Practice Consulting, and Greenbranch Publishing, Publisher of the 25-year old, Journal of Medical Practice Management®, and a team of editorial content “Codapedists” from around the nation.

Codapedia™ content, like Wikipedia content, will be available for reuse under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). This means that anyone is free to reuse the Codapedia™ content for non-commercial reasons as long as there is a link back to Codapedia.com. In order to cover operating costs, video advertising and traditional web advertising will be shown on the Codapedia website.

About Betsy Nicoletti, Medical Practice Consulting

Nicoletti is the President and Founder of Medical Practice Consulting, based in Springfield, Vermont. She is the author of The Field Guide to Physician Coding and the 2008 Physician Auditing Workbook. Betsy Nicoletti simplifies complex coding rules for practitioners and engages physicians in a positive and respectful way, which encourages attention and accuracy in their coding. Besides doing auditing and compliance work, she is a speaker, writer and consultant in coding education, billing and accounts receivable.

More information can be found at: www.mpconsulting.org, and www.codapedia.com

About Greenbranch Publishing

Greenbranch Publishing, with headquarters in Phoenix, Maryland, is a privately held firm founded in 1998. The company is a leading publisher of medical practice management titles, including the 25-year old The Journal of Medical Practice Management®, electronic media and audio conferences for physicians, practice administrators and office practice managers. More information can be found at:

www.mpmnetwork.com
www.soundpractice.net
www.mpmbuyersguide.com
www.fastpractice.com
www.codapedia.com