#Letdoctorsbedoctors is on the rise thanks to the artistic brilliance that is Zdoggmd. When anything HIT-related does viral, it’s an exciting time for our industry since these days it feels like the only more widespread news items seem to revolve around data breaches. One of the themes of his lyrical send up that really resonated with many of us at MedAptus has to do with the notion of system access – or rather, the seemingly ubiquitous lack of access, particularly for inpatient focused providers.
When groups turn to MedAptus for assistance with their charge capture and/or charge management processes, it is typically because of a noted revenue cycle challenge, i.e., lost charges. But when you peel back the layers of the problem statement, it becomes evident that many times access and disparate systems are driving the revenue loss. Common scenarios include the use of one EMR in the office and a different one in the hospital (hence paper); or lack of interoperability between coding tools and the hospital EMR driving duplicate processes/log-ins; and finally, conflicting patient data between what the hospital’s registration system has captured versus what the billing office has on record on the patient.
So over the course of the past year, many groups have turned to MedAptus for ICD-10 help and what they have found instead is a solution to myriad access and data problems they just learned to live with. With Pro Charge in place, groups benefit from intelligent automation for hospitalist and other rounding providers; our seamless EMR interoperability takes this a step further, leveraging the existing hospital clinical system, log-in and shared patient record. And with one of the industry’s most capable integration teams, customer billing teams find tremendous value from our system’s ability to marry hospital obtained demographics with any billing system patient data – and hey, if there isn’t any, we can automate creation, further eliminating administrative burden.
Letting doctors be doctors is a notion MedAptus certainly stands behind – as is letting doctors sleep in a little bit more, get home for (or shortly after) dinner, and enabling billing offices to send claims within hours of service delivery, letting doctors also receive payment in a timely manner.
