Top Benefits Of Using Customized Medical Practice Management Software

By Author: Marvin Cole
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Practice management Systems go a long way in bringing convenience, efficiency and accuracy in handling various tasks in medical setups – scheduling appointments, verifying eligibility, storing patient records , sending reminders tracking tasks , handling billing , checking insurance details and eligibility and generating customized reports. All this results in freeing up of time which is then better channelized towards providing Patient Care. Each of the sub-systems handles an area which is critical to the overall value that a Practice management System has to offer.

Nothing helps save a physician’s time as a scheduler. A scheduler can be set can be used from an appointment calendar .Relevant information related to each of the appointments can also be saved in it. Physicians or Administrators can view daily, weekly and monthly spread of schedules and make modifications as per the need of the hour. Various rules can also be set to control the type or nature of appointments, also allow/deny over scheduling. All these features help a lot in thorough utilization of Physician’s time and reducing missed revenue opportunities. ...
... Superbills or Encounter forms as they are known can be custom made so has to include only the codes which are specific and relevant to the practices from the otherwise master list which consists of thousands of procedure and diagnosis codes used to document medical services.

The design of the forms can also be custom made. Besides the convenience factor, all this helps in considerable saving of time and effort. Appointment reminders ensure increase in revenue by reducing cases of no shows. The reminders can be configured to send default emails in advance. There can also be provision to make reminder calls with recorded messages to the patients.

Storing of all the information related to a Patient goes a long way in saving time used for managing them. Details which are entered include demographics, insurance and health information and financial history in addition to other relevant reports and documents. Advantage can be taken of the demographics information to identify default providers for patients. Documents such as lab reports, X-rays etc. can also be uploaded and stored for future reference.

Access to insurance details of patients is critical before registration and scheduling of an appointment. The system allows verification of the benefits eligibility at real time and patient's payment responsibilities, such as the deductible, copayment, or coinsurance. This not only saves time but also increases the collections by eliminating cases with invalid or insufficient insurance details.

The billing module can setting up standard fee schedules or insurance-specific contracts. Just entering the standard codes for the procedures along with the insurance specific details is enough to make the required calculations needed to arrive at the billing amounts.

A dashboard provides an easy and convenient way to understand the state of operations in your medical setup at any point in time. Through charts, key performance indicators, shortcuts and to-do lists one can have better control of activities and direct focus on areas which need more attention and streamlining.

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