Latest Professional Offering Streamlines Charge Capture and Patient Management Tasks for Hospitalists, Intensivists and Consultative Care Providers
BOSTON, Oct. 7, 2008 — MedAptus(R), market leader for charge capture technologies, today launched Inpatient Edition, a Professional Intelligent Charge Capture solution designed specifically to address revenue capture and practice challenges unique to hospitalists, intensivists, anesthesiologists and inpatient consultative specialties. Inpatient Edition combines the core functionality of MedAptus’ practice-proven software with enhanced features aimed at simplifying patient management, service hand-off and communication, and complex coding scenarios.
MedAptus’ Professional Intelligent Charge Capture, widely regarded by its expanding customer base as easy-to-use yet incredibly robust, has delivered tens of millions of dollars in financial benefit across numerous group practices and hospitals. Beyond re-engineering problematic revenue cycle processes, the tool saves busy providers valuable time, boosts compliance efforts and extends organizational EMR investments.
Inpatient Edition, developed under the guidance of David Delaney, MD, MedAptus’ chief medical officer and a practicing intensivist at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, fully supports the unique workflows of acute setting specialists. While the solution effectively addresses key billing issues in hospital settings – lost, missing and lagging charges – user benefits go well beyond improved charge capture as a result of the following core components:
Rounding List: A set of powerful tools that enable physicians – at the individual level – to easily model their style of patient management whether team-based, a personal census or a mixture of both.
Communication: Multiple studies have demonstrated increased risk of adverse events surrounding the hand-off of patients; MedAptus helps mitigate this risk with functionality that streamlines communication between caregivers. Options include electronic sign-out notes for each patient as well as rapid and flexible messaging allowing patient-centered communication amongst the care team.
Anesthesia: Yields compliant time-based capture of anesthesia charges, eliminating the need to extract billing information from clinically oriented flow sheets. Code selection is eased through flexible look-up by organ system, CPT(R) Crosswalk or direct code entry.
P4P: Utilizes intelligent, just-in-time prompts to support the automated documentation, reporting and submission of data aiding pay-for-performance programs and quality improvement processes.
In addition to the aforementioned physician-centric features, Inpatient Edition also includes the RCA Engine, MedAptus’ Reconciliation, Coding & Administration dashboard designed for administrative users supporting back-office billing processes. Features such as real-time charge reconciliation, rounding list maintenance options and exception-based charge management (stemming from rule violations or evidence of revenue loss) make this an indispensable application for effective inpatient practice operations.
“While our Professional Intelligent Charge Capture technology has long supported the needs of hospital-based physicians, given the anticipated and significant growth in demand for hospitalists and intensivists, the time was right to augment our standard professional offering with advanced functionality targeting the inpatient setting. The newly enhanced features and functions further extend ease-of-use in the inpatient setting, driving the ultimate impacts of improved revenue capture, streamlined billing operations and better coding compliance,” said Dr. Delaney.
About MedAptus Corporation
MedAptus’ vision is to become the Gold Standard in the healthcare revenue cycle for effective charge management, compliance and workflow efficiency. With the most powerful, yet easy-to-use, Intelligent Charge Capture technologies available, we enjoy enterprise-wide adoption at some of the nation’s most prestigious healthcare organizations. Our portfolio of full-scale Professional and Facility offerings is practice-proven to increase revenue, re-engineer archaic processes, enhance EMR investments and save busy providers valuable time. For more information, visit http://www.medaptus.com or call 617.896.4000.
Contact:
Jennifer Crowley, MedAptus
p. 617.896.4030
Lisa Astor, PAN Communications
p. 978.474.1900
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