Integrated Software?

October 6, 2004

Hello colleagues,

I've just recently joined this list, and spent a while searching the archives,

so I do apologize if there has been recent discussion of this topic and I missed

it!

Specifically I'm looking for software that integrates Scheduling, Billing and

Documentation, so that I have no repetitive data entry.

I run a small outpatient ortho and chronic pain PT clinic, and am being driven

batty by redundant data entry. At the moment I use three different programs that

can't talk to each other, so I enter various patient information in different

ways in different programs. Very frustrating and a waste of time.

Any experience or suggestions?

Appreciatively,

Graham Hadley, PT

Honolulu, HI

ghadley@...

October 6, 2004

Hello,

Although I may not be using software at the moment, you can use a

resource that lists them, if you can find someone who is an APTA

member. Ask someone is they have the August 2004 issue of the PT

Magazine. It is here that various products/companies are listed and

you can follow up for more information via their contact

number/email/webapge. Hope this helps.

JMA

>

> Hello colleagues,

> I've just recently joined this list, and spent a while searching

the archives, so I do apologize if there has been recent discussion

of this topic and I missed it!

>

> Specifically I'm looking for software that integrates Scheduling,

Billing and Documentation, so that I have no repetitive data entry.

>

> I run a small outpatient ortho and chronic pain PT clinic, and am

being driven batty by redundant data entry. At the moment I use three

different programs that can't talk to each other, so I enter various

patient information in different ways in different programs. Very

frustrating and a waste of time.

>

> Any experience or suggestions?

>

> Appreciatively,

> Graham Hadley, PT

> Honolulu, HI

> ghadley@p...

>

October 7, 2004

I'm currently writing up a business plan for my to be opened soon private

practice -- can anyone give me a ball park figure of what systems like this

cost? I'd like to include it as part of the business plan, but I suspect right

now it may be prohibitively expensive. Priem

JHall49629@... wrote:

In a message dated 10/6/2004 5:38:18 PM Central Standard Time,

ghadley@... writes:

Specifically I'm looking for software that integrates Scheduling, Billing and

Documentation, so that I have no repetitive data entry.

Graham;

I can make two recommendations:

1. Raintree

2. Clinicient

Both appear to be good systems.

Jim <

October 11, 2004

Dear Graham,

I run a multi-clinic rehab group located in Oregon. If you're looking for a

system that integrates scheduling, documentation and billing, you might want

to look at Clinicient before making a decision.

Our group was previously using three separate systems for scheduling,

documentation and billing. We've switched our scheduling, documentation, and

billing to Clinicient. Clinicient's system has modules for scheduling,

documentation and billing and you only enter data once. Patient intake,

scheduling and documentation are an integrated module and patient

demographic information and charges are passed to the billing module without

data re-entry. You can click right from schedule to the documentation for

the visit. When the therapist signs off on the visit, the visit is exported

to the billing module with all patient demographic information and

procedures for the visit. The billing staff can add information in the

billing system, but they don't have to re-enter information that was already

collected at the front desk or by the therapist.

Not only does the system save us time, it also gives everyone in our

organization immediate access to all the information they need about a

patient or a visit so that we're not pulling files or pulling therapists

offline to supply information. It also creates a audit trail from the

referral all the way through to the electronic claims. This helps us ensure

that every visit has supporting documentation that matches.

Clinicient has a number of other useful capabilities. Their alerts and task

lists that provide me with one place where I can go to find potential

problems BEFORE they show up in billing. I can view insurance authorizations

that are expired or about to expire, patients that have run out or are close

to running out of prescribed visits, patients that need Medicare

certifications and re-certifications, underbilling, overbilling, inactive

patients or patients who have been referred but haven't shown up for an

appointment, unsigned (unbilled) visits. With the task list, I can assign

individuals or groups to follow up and make sure everything is in order to

ensure we get paid for the work we do.

Check it out a www.clinicient.com/what. Feel free to contact me if you have

questions.

Kennedy I. Hawkins

President & General Manager

PT Northwest, LLC

685 36th Ave. NE

Salem, OR 97301