Going electronic holds the key to better coding and improved workflow.
Complicated rules, unique billing requirements, CCI edits can make it a challenge for you to capture all the services and supplies you provide your patients. Make life easier for yourself and more bountiful for your practice/facility by going electronic with your charge capture. Electronic charge capture (ECC) success will be so meaningful financially that you will wonder how you managed without it.
An optimally designed ECC can:
A case study: The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston shifted its charge capture process from paper-based capture to electronic capture. The institute which handles about 842,000 patient statements annually — processing about 1.2 million claims each year — found the electronic charge capture much easier and financially meaningful as compared to the paper-based capture. The institution evidenced a whopping $500,000 increase in average daily cash posting in less than two years after shifting to electronic process.