For coders whose employer pays
Expense HCC Buddy to your employer
Most coding shops already buy someone a reference tool. If yours has a training, software, or continuing education budget, HCC Buddy fits in it for less per seat than the enterprise encoders charge. Here is what you need to get it approved.
You get a real invoice
Billing runs through Stripe. Every payment produces an itemized invoice with the date, amount, and billing period, and you can open the billing portal from your account page at any time to view or download it as a PDF. That is the document expense systems ask for.
If your finance team needs the invoice addressed to the company rather than to you, put the company name and billing address in the billing portal before your first charge, or email sales@hccbuddy.com and we will sort it out.
Send this to your manager
Copy this, put your name on it, and send it. It says what the tool does, what it costs, and that you can cancel, which is the part that gets a yes.
I'd like to expense a subscription to HCC Buddy (hccbuddy.com). It's a coding reference tool built for risk adjustment: ICD-10-CM lookup across the full code set, HCC mapping for both the V24 and V28 models, RAF calculation, MEAT prompts, and a Chrome extension so I can check a code without leaving the chart. It is $29.99 per month, or $19.99 while the founding rate is open, and it can be canceled at any time with no contract. Every payment produces an itemized invoice I can submit. It replaces the time I currently spend cross-referencing the code set by hand, which is the slowest part of my day.
More than one coder?
Team plans bill centrally from one invoice, start at $14 per seat per month, and come with an admin view of who is using their seat. A BAA is available on request.
See team plans
