January/February 2010
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This April PCS will be hosting our first annual User Meeting in Walnut Creek, CA. For more information about the User Meeting, or to reserve your space, send an email to Sandy Thompson at sandy@primeclinical.com. Please include your Client ID, Client Name, Contact Name, and Phone Number.
by Larraine Ewing, Sales
The health care field is continuing to change -- are you keeping up with it? Prime Clinical Systems is, and we're here to help you. Not only can Prime Clinical's software help prepare you for the coming stimulus dollars, but our software is now more accessible via remote hosting and through multiple leasing plans of software, hardware, and services.
by David Herrig, Training Manager
With the latest release of PCM, we have added many exciting new features to assist your practice in providing quality medical care to your patients. Here are just a few of them that you may find helpful.
PCS clients have been reporting recent, ongoing issues when downloading ERN and RSP reports from Medicare. This is due to an intermittent problem on Medicare’s system. Prime Clinical Systems continues to work closely with Medicare in resolving the problem for our clients, and sent an email to Intellect clients in the first week of January with information on manually running the Backup and Export tasks. The email can be accessed by clicking on Read more >>.
For future reference, please forward your Medicare Submitter ID, and the name of your Medicare carrier to PCS.
Three Uniform Data System (UDS) reports have been added to the Intellect Management menu: Patients by Age and Gender, Patients by Race and Language, and Patients by Zip Code.
Email and text messages can be sent automatically to patients to remind them of their appointments. These Intellect options can significantly cut the time and expense of reminding patients of their appointments and reduce the cost of missed appointments.
Do you have to make a presentation and need charts or displays? Intellect offers the option of plotting graphs for the number of appointments for selected dates and a selected parameter of Appointment Type, Doctor, or Facility. Graphs can be produced in the three different styles: pie graphs, bar graphs, and line graphs.
Every once in a while, electronics and software being what they are, problems arise. Prime Clinical support personnel are waiting to help you, but how do you contact them? You could exit from Intellect to send an email or look up the phone number to call, but a quicker way may be to simply use Intellect’s Open New Reference option to contact Prime Clinical.
pVerify™ is the first solution in the market that guarantees COMPLETE (incl. deductibles, co-ins and out-of-pocket remaining) and CONTEXTUAL (i.e. tailored to your practice/specialty) Patient Eligibility and Benefits information allowing providers to collect 100% of patient obligation payments at the time of service. And since we are fully integrated with your Prime Clinical software, you will be able to eliminate the manual work relating to eligibility verification entirely.
by Diane Bridges, Director of Support
It’s support available 24/7! PCS understands clients may require assistance other than during normal business hours and therefore provide continuous After Hours/On Call support. When calling After Hours/On Call support, an agent will answer your call. If all agents are currently working with other clients, you may leave a message and can expect to receive a return call within 30 minutes.
by Bob Willis, DataBill National Account Coordinator
The business-critical process of printing and mailing patient self-pay statements and invoices is a function that cannot be ignored. As painful as the process may be, it is essential to a healthy back office. Usually the burden falls upon one or two people in the office that are stuck doing the billing. Staying late, working nights or, even worse, coming in on weekends just to get it done. Why do you still do it when outsourcing that function has been a trusted option in health care for over fifteen years? The following is an attempt to pique interest and ask a few simple questions. If you are still doing it the old-fashioned way, give us a call and see how we can help you.
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By Michele James Smith of Supercoder
One can find International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes on patient paperwork, including hospital records, physician records, and death certificates. Today, most of the ICD codes used in the United States are version 9, which are called ICD 9 CM codes.
By Joseph Goedert, Health Data Management (HDM) Breaking News, December 15, 2009
The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, an advisory body to the Department of Health and Human Services, has made several recommendations to facilitate meaningful measurement of care quality using electronic health records.
Electronic health records could help reduce the rate of hip fracture in the U.S. by 25%, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the November issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, Healthcare IT News reports.
New digital technologies are helping to transform traditional relationships between patients and their health care providers, HealthLeadersMedia reports.
How
Will Health Care Providers PrepareHealth care providers cited the
use of technology as their top method for preparing for potential Medicare
payment cuts, according to a new survey.
More than 30% of health care providers surveyed said they plan to make
better use of technology to help offset proposed Medicare payment cuts.
The Advisory Board Company, iHealthBeat
for California HealthCare Foundation,
11/19/2009
Saturday Evening Post – Nov. 2009