Suren Khachatryan, CPC
Medical billing and coding expert. Every report Fair Measure delivers is read, corrected and signed by him.
He gives a coding and billing opinion and never a medical one. Whether the documentation supports the level billed is his question. Whether the treatment was necessary is a physician's.
The same document is attached to every report he signs, as Exhibit A.
Certified Professional Coder, credentialed by the AAPC.
Earned by examination and maintained by continuing education. It is the credential that says the person reading your client’s bills was examined on the code set he is giving an opinion about, by the body that publishes the rules for using it, and has to keep proving it. An attorney can verify it in the AAPC’s own directory without asking us.
- fee schedules
- personal injury reimbursement
- expert reports
- CPT and ICD-10 coding
He reads bills for a living, not as an occasional assignment.
He has worked in medical billing and no-fault claims since 2016, and the first four of those years were spent inside the claim files themselves: opening claims, coordinating benefits, arguing them with insurance adjusters and preparing provider cases for arbitration. He learned what an adjuster does with a bill before he learned to measure one.
Medical coder and expert report writer
- Co-author of more than 200 medical billing and coding expert reports in personal injury matters.
- Medical records and itemized bills analysed for the accuracy of the CPT codes billed against the service documented.
- Charges priced against published fee schedules, and reimbursement recommendations prepared under both Medicare and state no-fault rules.
One Link Medical Billing Solutions, LLC
Third-party medical billing company.- Complete billing and coding for orthopedics, neurosurgery, pain management and gastroenterology practices: coding, claims scrubbing, pre-certification, pre- and post-service appeals, and reimbursement negotiation.
- Reimbursement guidance written for the rules of the state the claim sits in, including New York and New Jersey.
- A coding team trained and kept current on the annual CPT and ICD-10 changes.
Alliance Medibilling
- Verified CPT and ICD-10 use for pain management, orthopedic and anesthesia providers.
- Pre-certification and pre-authorization requests, and the appeals that followed them, for surgical procedures.
- Post-service appeals on personal injury protection auto claims, and the negotiation of denied and underpaid claims.
All City Cars, Inc.
- Auto policy and accident information collected to open a claim and file the No-Fault application with the carrier.
- Benefits analysed and coordinated for payment on No-Fault and personal injury protection claims.
- Worked daily with medical billers and with insurance adjusters, and prepared cases for arbitration and litigation on behalf of medical providers.
- Claim files resolved against the rules of New York no-fault, including the adjustments, code corrections and resubmissions the billing department needed to meet them.
Where the training came from.
- Medical insurance coding specialist and coder programme
- AAPC · 2021 to 2022
- Bachelor of Arts, Economics
- Hunter College, City University of New York · 2015 to 2017
- Bachelor's degree, Business administration and management
- Armenian State University of Economics · 2012 to 2015
He works in English, Russian and Armenian.
He has not testified yet, and this page says so.
He has not previously been deposed or testified at trial. It is stated here rather than left to be asked. It is also the reason every opinion he signs is written to be checked against the published file it came from rather than defended from the witness box.
Available for deposition and for trial testimony on any report carrying his signature. Testimony is quoted separately from the report fee.
Send one case. Decide from what comes back.
A report is $2,450 flat, and $1,450 for a firm’s first case. If it is not something you would put in front of a judge, you do not pay for it.