In the land of medical billing, we get so caught up in the day-to-day operations of getting the bills out, we completely forget about checking to see if our software system is operating the way it should. Needless to say, as problems become noticeable, it is usually because of neglect in keeping an eye on things. In this review, we'll go over some basic system reports that you should be running just to make sure that your software is performing the way it should.
The first report that you should be running is an error report. All software packages track any kind of errors that occur during processing. This could be any kind of processing from submitting claims, to printing forms to running other reports. This error report should be run on a daily basis. The number of errors that occur should be minimal to say the least. If you find a gradual increase in the number of daily errors, this could be an indication that there are problems with the software. The most common of these are corrupted databases. If you suspect this, run a utility to check the integrity of your various databases.
The next report you should run is what is called a failed request report. This usually has to be run on the server unless the software package itself has this capability. Most high end DME medisoft software packages do produce a limited failed request report. But if you really want to get a full blown report with all the details that you're going to need. The usual cause of failed request is a bad network connection. If this is what you suspect, have your network administrator run diagnostics on the network. Also have him check all the wiring and network cards in all the computers. Usually the failed requests will come from one
particular computer which narrows down your search for the culprit.
You're also probably going to want to run a report on network activity and system resources. For the most part, unless you have a massive billing department, the activity on the server should be minimal. Memory usage shouldn't even register a blip. However, if you find that there are spikes in memory usage, you might want to look at the times of the day that this is occurring. Find out from the billing department when their heaviest periods are as far as billing and other activities. See if there is a correlation between the two.
Finally, you're going to want to run a report to see the rate at which your databases are increasing in size. If you are a large medical billing company, your databases are going to grow at an alarming rate. While your server capacity may be in the gigabytes, it doesn't take long before you find that your medical billing software is hogging up 50% of your disk space. Once you see this happening, you're going to need tomake plans to either add another drive or upgrade the one you have.
http://www.ozelwebtasarim.com/index.php/web-haberleri/15248-medical-billing-software-system-reports
Saturday, June 06, 2009
Sunday, May 03, 2009
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We deliver quality medical coding and billing at extremely competitive rates. Our proficient medical billing specialists enable clients to get maximum benefits. Offshore Medical Billing is providing services from last 10 years in this medical industry. We are committed to our clients to provide high quality and accurate medical billing solutions. Offshore Medical Billing offers free trial offer without any financial obligation to know our quality of our services.
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http://www.michiganpr.net/index.php?xnewsaction=fullnews&newsarch=042009&newsid=598
Friday, April 10, 2009
Closing of ASK medical clinic poses troubling questions in community
“Since when did it become a crime to get sick in the United States of America?”
An audience member at a forum on health care posed that question. An answer comes from a teacher: “No one cares about poor people. That clinic closed because there's no money to be made from it.”
My friend is mostly right, but there's a group of people right here in our city that care and care a lot. The trouble is, they aren't allowed to show it.
In 1997, a free medical clinic opened in Fort Wayne. In its old doctor's office on South Calhoun Street, it stood as a beacon of hope to thousands of residents who, like 50 million other Americans, have no health insurance or ability to pay medical bills. With just a few paid staff, the heart and soul of ASK were the volunteers, doctors and nurses and just plain people who gave freely of their time and talent to make ASK possible. I call them angels. In a time of great greed and suffering, they offer a beacon of hope to our struggling city and country.
All this came to an abrupt halt. Picture on a blustery December day, 25 to 30 people standing in line outside the clinic, shivering against the cold, wondering why they cannot get in. Without warning the board of directors of the nonprofit agency said they were shutting down temporarily to “reorganize.” The board changed the locks. What a symbol for an agency whose message is one of openness.
No other explanation by the board is given until a note appears on the door Jan. 6, which says in part, “We will continue to be guided by our mission in serving the people in our community who are most in need of services.”
Once again the needs of people who don't have to worry about how they're going to pay for the doctor trump the needs of the people they serve, “the people in our community who are most in need of services” - people like Nicholas Parker, a patient at ASK, who now has nowhere to turn, whose sense of hope in a country he loves is crushed, whose son paid the ultimate price in defending it in Kuwait. He just needs a little help.
I quote at some length from an open letter Parker wrote because I cannot say it as well: “The people that these good doctors are helping are us. Common ordinary American citizens who have poured their love, blood, sweat and tears, loyalty, allegiance and way more than our fair share of tax dollars into this great country ... My wife Jeannetta and I were raised to earn our keep, pay our taxes, contribute to our communities, care for our children and fellow man. ...We are not lazy, bad or unsavory citizens. We just need a little help ...Our story is one that is shared by hundreds (if not thousands) of others, especially in an ever downward-spiraling economy and a nation whose values and ethics are under stress, scrutiny and decline as well. We would certainly have died long ago from governmental incompetence and neglect if it were not for the humanitarian treatment and medical attention given to us by these kind and benevolent and truly wonderful Christian people ... I do not know if you can imagine the desperation we are experiencing at having discovered that the ASK clinic closed, but it is devastating to us ... We now have nowhere to turn to, or to go to, for help ... Our world is becoming an ever-increasingly hostile place where hunger, pain, anguish, poverty and futility are more the norm instead of the exception.”
Who is going to give him the help he so richly deserves?
The U.S. government certainly isn't. We're the only industrialized country not to care enough about its citizens to give them health insurance. We rank among those countries near the bottom in infant mortality and life expectancy. Every 30 seconds an American goes bankrupt due to medical costs. And every year 18,000 of us die because we can't afford to go to the doctor.
Recently I hosted a show to give some of the people at ASK a chance to voice their frustrations. Do you know what they're frustrated about? Because they didn't get their $40 million dollar bonus? No. The doctors, nurses and volunteers are upset because they can no longer treat the sick. I felt as if I was on another planet. All those citizens speaking not from abstract theory, but from painful, personal experience. How can this be? People wanting to help others and denied the chance to do so?
When you're forbidden to do something, it's usually to prevent you from committing a crime. Anyone know the exact date it became a crime to get sick in America?
http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090410/EDITORIAL/904100331
An audience member at a forum on health care posed that question. An answer comes from a teacher: “No one cares about poor people. That clinic closed because there's no money to be made from it.”
My friend is mostly right, but there's a group of people right here in our city that care and care a lot. The trouble is, they aren't allowed to show it.
In 1997, a free medical clinic opened in Fort Wayne. In its old doctor's office on South Calhoun Street, it stood as a beacon of hope to thousands of residents who, like 50 million other Americans, have no health insurance or ability to pay medical bills. With just a few paid staff, the heart and soul of ASK were the volunteers, doctors and nurses and just plain people who gave freely of their time and talent to make ASK possible. I call them angels. In a time of great greed and suffering, they offer a beacon of hope to our struggling city and country.
All this came to an abrupt halt. Picture on a blustery December day, 25 to 30 people standing in line outside the clinic, shivering against the cold, wondering why they cannot get in. Without warning the board of directors of the nonprofit agency said they were shutting down temporarily to “reorganize.” The board changed the locks. What a symbol for an agency whose message is one of openness.
No other explanation by the board is given until a note appears on the door Jan. 6, which says in part, “We will continue to be guided by our mission in serving the people in our community who are most in need of services.”
Once again the needs of people who don't have to worry about how they're going to pay for the doctor trump the needs of the people they serve, “the people in our community who are most in need of services” - people like Nicholas Parker, a patient at ASK, who now has nowhere to turn, whose sense of hope in a country he loves is crushed, whose son paid the ultimate price in defending it in Kuwait. He just needs a little help.
I quote at some length from an open letter Parker wrote because I cannot say it as well: “The people that these good doctors are helping are us. Common ordinary American citizens who have poured their love, blood, sweat and tears, loyalty, allegiance and way more than our fair share of tax dollars into this great country ... My wife Jeannetta and I were raised to earn our keep, pay our taxes, contribute to our communities, care for our children and fellow man. ...We are not lazy, bad or unsavory citizens. We just need a little help ...Our story is one that is shared by hundreds (if not thousands) of others, especially in an ever downward-spiraling economy and a nation whose values and ethics are under stress, scrutiny and decline as well. We would certainly have died long ago from governmental incompetence and neglect if it were not for the humanitarian treatment and medical attention given to us by these kind and benevolent and truly wonderful Christian people ... I do not know if you can imagine the desperation we are experiencing at having discovered that the ASK clinic closed, but it is devastating to us ... We now have nowhere to turn to, or to go to, for help ... Our world is becoming an ever-increasingly hostile place where hunger, pain, anguish, poverty and futility are more the norm instead of the exception.”
Who is going to give him the help he so richly deserves?
The U.S. government certainly isn't. We're the only industrialized country not to care enough about its citizens to give them health insurance. We rank among those countries near the bottom in infant mortality and life expectancy. Every 30 seconds an American goes bankrupt due to medical costs. And every year 18,000 of us die because we can't afford to go to the doctor.
Recently I hosted a show to give some of the people at ASK a chance to voice their frustrations. Do you know what they're frustrated about? Because they didn't get their $40 million dollar bonus? No. The doctors, nurses and volunteers are upset because they can no longer treat the sick. I felt as if I was on another planet. All those citizens speaking not from abstract theory, but from painful, personal experience. How can this be? People wanting to help others and denied the chance to do so?
When you're forbidden to do something, it's usually to prevent you from committing a crime. Anyone know the exact date it became a crime to get sick in America?
http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090410/EDITORIAL/904100331
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Insurance claims examiner, medical billing manager
Lynn C. Michaels, 56, of Millville died Saturday, March 21, 2009, after a brief illness at the South Jersey Healthcare Regional Medical Center in Vineland. Born in Millville, she was a lifelong resident.
Mrs. Michaels worked for Dr. Song of Vineland as a medical billing manager for the last 1 1/2 years. She had also worked for the Prudential Co. in Millville as a claims examiner for more than 15 years.
Mrs. Michaels was a member of the First Assembly of God Church of Millville. She enjoyed ceramics, painting and collecting ceramic eagles. Mrs. Michaels especially enjoyed spending time with her granddaughter, Vivian.
She is survived by her mother, Carolyn Hand of Vineland; a son, Thomas Michaels of Manahawkin; a daughter, Kimberly Jackson and husband Kristopher of Franklin Township; brothers Howard Hand and wife Cynthia of Hudson, Fla., Earl Hand and wife Janice of Millville, Owen Hand and Kevin Saltzer of Robinsdale, Minn.; a sister, Betty Townsend and husband Edward of Millville; a granddaughter, Vivian Michaels of Manahawkin; four nieces and seven nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, Carl Michaels Jr.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday in the First Assembly of God Church of Millville. Burial will follow in the Greenwood Memorial Park Cemetery. Relatives and friends will be received at the church from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Thursday.
http://www.thedailyjournal.com/article/20090323/OBITUARIES/903230363
Mrs. Michaels worked for Dr. Song of Vineland as a medical billing manager for the last 1 1/2 years. She had also worked for the Prudential Co. in Millville as a claims examiner for more than 15 years.
Mrs. Michaels was a member of the First Assembly of God Church of Millville. She enjoyed ceramics, painting and collecting ceramic eagles. Mrs. Michaels especially enjoyed spending time with her granddaughter, Vivian.
She is survived by her mother, Carolyn Hand of Vineland; a son, Thomas Michaels of Manahawkin; a daughter, Kimberly Jackson and husband Kristopher of Franklin Township; brothers Howard Hand and wife Cynthia of Hudson, Fla., Earl Hand and wife Janice of Millville, Owen Hand and Kevin Saltzer of Robinsdale, Minn.; a sister, Betty Townsend and husband Edward of Millville; a granddaughter, Vivian Michaels of Manahawkin; four nieces and seven nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, Carl Michaels Jr.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday in the First Assembly of God Church of Millville. Burial will follow in the Greenwood Memorial Park Cemetery. Relatives and friends will be received at the church from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Thursday.
http://www.thedailyjournal.com/article/20090323/OBITUARIES/903230363
Friday, February 27, 2009
Glenwood Systems, LLC Improves Medical Billing Process with GlaceComplete
Glenwood Systems, LLC (http://www.GlenwoodSystems.com) launches the GlaceComplete product suite which seamlessly integrates EMR and Practice Management software to an assisted medical billing process. The product has been designed to reduce the cost associated with clinical and billing inefficiency while maximizing revenue contribution for the average office based medical practice.
Waterbury, CT (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 26, 2009 -- Glenwood Systems,LLC announces today the release of GlaceComplete, a combination of software, process and service constructed to improve medical practice revenue and reduce medical practice operation costs. Designed to be affordable via a web based model and to improve revenue in an office based medical practice, GlaceComplete seamlessly integrates easy to use EMR (electronic medical records) and practice management software to a proprietary medical billing process. GlaceComplete simplifies practice workflow, improves offices efficiencies, increases patient file security, frees office space, reduces operational cost and provides new revenue opportunities while maximizing a steady collection of contracted fees billed and the capture of CMS PQRI and e-Prescribing bonus payments.
“Now a physician can have complete oversight and transparency of the medical practice clinical and billing process via the GlaceComplete dashboard and free their staff of the mundane and repetitive administrative and medical billing tasks.” states Nat Loganathan, Founder and CEO Glenwood Systems, LLC “Glenwood is focused on the business health of the practice so the physician can focus on patient health. We are all faced with very tough economic challenges; there is no reason that the average office based physician should let hard earned revenue go unrealized. Many of our clients experience additional bottom line contribution of $20,000 - $50,000 with the use of our proprietary software and assisted medical billing process.”
Glenwood will be presenting the new GlaceComplete program at the ACP Internal Medicine 2009 conference in Philadelphia at the end of April.
Glenwood Systems is best known for its GlaceEMR and Glace Full Service Billing products designed to deliver a complete platform of software and services that encompass all aspects of clinical data management and encounter billing.
To learn more about GlaceComplete visit http://www.glenwoodsystems.com, or contact Ron Flormann.
Glenwood Systems LLC is a privately owned company headquartered in Waterbury, CT with offices in Dayton Ohio, Tampa FL and Orange CA. Founded in 1998 as a provider of technology solution consulting, Glenwood is emerging as a leading provider of web enabled practice management and billing solutions for the healthcare industry. Glenwood Systems is a participant in the EHR Partners Program offered through the American College of Physician’s Center for Practice Improvement and Innovation Participation in this program is available to EHR systems that are certified by the Commission for Healthcare Information Technology Participation in the EHR program does not imply endorsement by ACP or the existence of any type of partnership or representative relationship between Glenwood and ACP
Contact:
Ron Flormann, CCO
Glenwood Systems, LLC
203-437-4089
http://www.glenwoodsystems.com
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/02/prweb2183234.htm
Waterbury, CT (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 26, 2009 -- Glenwood Systems,LLC announces today the release of GlaceComplete, a combination of software, process and service constructed to improve medical practice revenue and reduce medical practice operation costs. Designed to be affordable via a web based model and to improve revenue in an office based medical practice, GlaceComplete seamlessly integrates easy to use EMR (electronic medical records) and practice management software to a proprietary medical billing process. GlaceComplete simplifies practice workflow, improves offices efficiencies, increases patient file security, frees office space, reduces operational cost and provides new revenue opportunities while maximizing a steady collection of contracted fees billed and the capture of CMS PQRI and e-Prescribing bonus payments.
“Now a physician can have complete oversight and transparency of the medical practice clinical and billing process via the GlaceComplete dashboard and free their staff of the mundane and repetitive administrative and medical billing tasks.” states Nat Loganathan, Founder and CEO Glenwood Systems, LLC “Glenwood is focused on the business health of the practice so the physician can focus on patient health. We are all faced with very tough economic challenges; there is no reason that the average office based physician should let hard earned revenue go unrealized. Many of our clients experience additional bottom line contribution of $20,000 - $50,000 with the use of our proprietary software and assisted medical billing process.”
Glenwood will be presenting the new GlaceComplete program at the ACP Internal Medicine 2009 conference in Philadelphia at the end of April.
Glenwood Systems is best known for its GlaceEMR and Glace Full Service Billing products designed to deliver a complete platform of software and services that encompass all aspects of clinical data management and encounter billing.
To learn more about GlaceComplete visit http://www.glenwoodsystems.com, or contact Ron Flormann.
Glenwood Systems LLC is a privately owned company headquartered in Waterbury, CT with offices in Dayton Ohio, Tampa FL and Orange CA. Founded in 1998 as a provider of technology solution consulting, Glenwood is emerging as a leading provider of web enabled practice management and billing solutions for the healthcare industry. Glenwood Systems is a participant in the EHR Partners Program offered through the American College of Physician’s Center for Practice Improvement and Innovation Participation in this program is available to EHR systems that are certified by the Commission for Healthcare Information Technology Participation in the EHR program does not imply endorsement by ACP or the existence of any type of partnership or representative relationship between Glenwood and ACP
Contact:
Ron Flormann, CCO
Glenwood Systems, LLC
203-437-4089
http://www.glenwoodsystems.com
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/02/prweb2183234.htm
Monday, February 02, 2009
SC4 to offer medical coding and billing training
The Workforce Training Institute at St. Clair County Community College will offer a medical coding and billing training program in Port Huron.
Training will be on Monday and Wednesday evenings, Feb. 23 through Sept. 16.
A mandatory pre-assessment workshop is Tuesday.
The training is designed for health-care professionals, billing professionals or people interested in the business aspect of health care and office management. Students will learn to collect, analyze and manage the information that steers the health care industry.
Students also will receive training in insurance and medical-claims processing in accordance with professional, legal and insurance industry standards.
The training meets all of the requirements and preparation for the Certifying Coding Associate Certification exam. Registration for the pre-assessment must be completed today.
http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20090201/NEWS05/90201007/1002/NEWS01
Training will be on Monday and Wednesday evenings, Feb. 23 through Sept. 16.
A mandatory pre-assessment workshop is Tuesday.
The training is designed for health-care professionals, billing professionals or people interested in the business aspect of health care and office management. Students will learn to collect, analyze and manage the information that steers the health care industry.
Students also will receive training in insurance and medical-claims processing in accordance with professional, legal and insurance industry standards.
The training meets all of the requirements and preparation for the Certifying Coding Associate Certification exam. Registration for the pre-assessment must be completed today.
http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20090201/NEWS05/90201007/1002/NEWS01
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Minnesota AG sues Allina over medical billing
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is suing Minneapolis-based Allina Hospitals & Clinics in Hennepin County District Court, alleging that the health provider has been charging patients excessively high interest rates on their debt.
Swanson said interest rates could reach 18 percent. State usury laws impose a cap of 8 percent interest on such debts.
“The high cost of health care is one of the biggest financial obstacles faced by many Minnesota families. Allina has dug a deeper financial hole for patients facing tough economic times by charging usurious interest rates of up to 18 percent on medical bills,” Swanson said in a statement.
The lawsuit names as defendants both Allina Health System and its subsidiary, Accounts Receivable Services, a debt collection agency owned by Allina that does business under the name MedCredit Financial Services.
Swanson said Allina offered MedCredit as an option to patients with medical bills not covered by insurance. Patients who didn’t seek MedCredit have to either pay immediately or in three monthly installments.
Allina in a statement said it was surprised by the lawsuit because it had already made a decision to reduce interest rates on all present and future MedCredit accounts to 8 percent, and had informed Swanson’s office of the decision last month.
The health provider also argued that its previous rate structure didn’t violate Minnesota law.
“Allina believes that MedCredit remains a valuable tool to help some patients pay their medical bills and that it may be a better alternative to financing such debt through a credit card, which may charge a much higher interest rate,” the statement said.
The state Attorney General’s Office is claiming that MedCredit not only violated state usury laws, but also consumer fraud laws. Besides getting Allina to stop violating the laws, Swanson wants Allina to pay back patients who were charged the high interest rates.
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2009/01/19/daily37.html
Swanson said interest rates could reach 18 percent. State usury laws impose a cap of 8 percent interest on such debts.
“The high cost of health care is one of the biggest financial obstacles faced by many Minnesota families. Allina has dug a deeper financial hole for patients facing tough economic times by charging usurious interest rates of up to 18 percent on medical bills,” Swanson said in a statement.
The lawsuit names as defendants both Allina Health System and its subsidiary, Accounts Receivable Services, a debt collection agency owned by Allina that does business under the name MedCredit Financial Services.
Swanson said Allina offered MedCredit as an option to patients with medical bills not covered by insurance. Patients who didn’t seek MedCredit have to either pay immediately or in three monthly installments.
Allina in a statement said it was surprised by the lawsuit because it had already made a decision to reduce interest rates on all present and future MedCredit accounts to 8 percent, and had informed Swanson’s office of the decision last month.
The health provider also argued that its previous rate structure didn’t violate Minnesota law.
“Allina believes that MedCredit remains a valuable tool to help some patients pay their medical bills and that it may be a better alternative to financing such debt through a credit card, which may charge a much higher interest rate,” the statement said.
The state Attorney General’s Office is claiming that MedCredit not only violated state usury laws, but also consumer fraud laws. Besides getting Allina to stop violating the laws, Swanson wants Allina to pay back patients who were charged the high interest rates.
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2009/01/19/daily37.html
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