Express Billing Reduces Overhead Costs Plainview, NY — Fastrack Healthcare Systems, Inc. has released Express Billing, a new automation feature that the company describes as the industry’s fastest method to generate bills to Medicare, Medicaid, invoice carriers, private pay facilities and wholesale accounts. Traditionally, HME Software Systems required running a variety of processes to […]
ContinuLink, LLC has announced a new software feature: LinkMail. Designed to help enhance communications within home health care agencies, the Boca Raton, Florida-based company says it has been designed to help improve patient care by eliminating the costly, inefficient games of phone tag and daisy chaining voice mails between office staff and field clinicians.
By Elizabeth E. Hogue, Esq. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued final rules to: Modify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy, Security and Enforcement Rules to implement statutory amendments under the Health Information Technology Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) to strengthen the privacy and security […]
We are usually wary of any new home healthcare or hospice software that was built after someone’s request by a developer with deep software expertise but new to our industry. For this reason, when we heard about Hospice Management Suite (HMS) by longtime business software developer Q90 – software specialists with products for facility […]
In a recent 6-month period, the Community Health Innovation Network (CHIN) saved payers $569,000 by preventing avoidable readmissions. Director and founder Janet Wheble’s announcement of that kind of result typically draws resounding applause, especially when delivered to a gathering of executives from Las Vegas’ thirteen hospitals and the health plans that benefit from their […]
When curative medical treatment is no longer an option, focus shifts to supporting a patient’s quality of life. Catholic Hospice is a community-based, not-for-profit program, serving Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties in Florida since 1988, that believes responsibility to its employees is second only to its patients. It was with these core values and twin […]
Schaumburg, IL — January 15, 2013 — St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii, one of the largest providers of non-hospital care in the state, has been using Allscripts for all back office needs for several years. They were interested in improving aide documentation, staff accountability, cost control and the ability to interface with Allscripts. […]
A randomized control study of 3,988 high-risk gastrointestinal, heart or lower respiratory patients found that prioritized, telephonic outreach by case managers following hospital discharge reduced future readmissions by 22 percent. The results of the study, conducted by health insurance provider Cigna (NYSE:CI), are published in the December 2012 issue of the independent, peer-reviewed American […]
According to a report in MedCityNews.com, a startup company named Health Recovery Solutions has created an online tool that calculates the Medicare penalty for every U.S. hospital. Available at healthrecoverysolutions.com/resources.php, the calculation is based on publicly available Medicare data for readmission rates, Diagnosis-Related Group reimbursement data and the published formula for how to calculate […]
