Re: Re: more about billing software, problem with EZ claims

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i am working to find the cheapest system that works together. yes, of course my time is valuable, and i've spent a lot of it on trying to figure all this stuff out. i am close to a solution, and i think it'll also be a low cost one. part of the problem we have in getting the things we need to get done, is the "MD" (make dough off this person) syndrome, and i just don't buy into that. we, as doctors and business owners, must know how to do these things, otherwise we will continue to be at the mercy of those who encourage us to "just be a doctor, we'll handle everything else", while charging us lots of money, upfront and on a recurring basis. i've had enough of that. i've looked at EZ some more, and although there is a small amount of double entry initially, i can get around that by using dual monitors, and control c & v for the few pieces of information back and forth

between AC and EZ. i am going to give EZ a try, and we'll see how that works.i think comparisons would be helpful-- perhaps everyone could present one year and five year costs of emr/information management/billing costs, and then we could compare how different systems stack up. LL brenthrabik wrote: Hello Larry, I have noticed you spend a bunch of time trying to follow the dollar a day rule however is your

time not worth much. Would you not be better off going to a more robust EMR that does all this stuff for you without you having to reinvent the wheel time and time again. I would thinks Eclinical, Emd or soapware with lytec would serve you so much better. I do not have any ties with any of these. If your payments are delayed or hassled it also makes it hard even collect a dollar a day. I bet the one that would beat the dollar a day over all is soapware with lytec, especially when you add in the cost of your time and opportunity cost. Brent>> ok, i have tried to use EZclaims, and i find i have to enter the insurance company demographics into the "payer library", even though everything else is imported from AC.> drat! i want to avoid double

entry.> it seems that the insurance plan name is imported, but the actual insurance company name, address and telephone #, along with the patient's group and id #'s are not.> this is probably an easy fix in EZ; i don't think it's a problem in AC because i had a previous biller where i could just export the billing file, and all the insurance info was exported.> so--> i am looking at generating a plain old hcfa from AC, and sending it off; and then when i switch to electronic billing, using office ally, which says that one can electronically upload a print image of the exported text file of the bill, which i can do from AC.> i have not yet heard from office ally accepting me into their system, but have emailed them asking them what's my status with them.> too bad about EZ, because their program has certain practice management features i would like.> is anyone specifically using the printed

hcfa from AC and sending it in, and getting paid?> that is my plan for right now.> LL> > > ---------------------------------> Have a burning question? Go to Yahoo! Answers and get answers from real people who know.>

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