| Frequently
Asked Questions
Can a single PracticePoint Manager serve a
multi-practice billing office?
What about managing multiple independent
doctors or profit centers within the same office?
Can PracticePoint Manager grow with our practice?
How does PPM support Contractual Allowances?
How does PPM track preauthorized care plans
Does PPM support Relative Value Unit pricing?
What are the electronic claims and remittance features?
And patient statements?...
Does claim filing include outpatient surgery
clinics or insti-tutional (Medicare Part A) claims?
What about Appointment scheduling?
How will PPM handle our need for special
management reports?
Can we link PPM to other patient management systems?
Tell us more about McKesson Information Solutions
Can PracticePoint Manager serve both large
and small practices?
Can a single PracticePoint Manager serve a
multi-practice billing office?
PPM is an extremely economical solution to run a billing office
serving multiple doctors. Each office maintains a separate SQL Server
database that can be accessed both locally and remotely. There is
a reasonable one-time charge for additional databases residing on
the same server.
What about managing multiple independent doctors
or profit centers within the same office?
This is easily achieved at no extra cost by
setting up independ-ent groups within a single PPM database. Tax and
submitter IDs are maintained for each group, while reports break out
each group's statistics and financial data.
Can PracticePoint Manager
grow with our practice?
PPM
is always sold as a complete system ready for any
number of doctors
or practices. There is one base price for
the program plus a charge
for each additional work station.
This means that an office can start
economically with one or
two work stations and add stations later
as the practice
grows or adds associates.
How does PPM
support Contractual Allowances?
Each contract or carrier plan may be linked to unique package
of benefits and fee schedule. Co-payments are assigned
individually depending on the type of care and patients are
automatically charged for uncovered services. This leaves
little room for error and few surprises.|
How does PPM track preauthorized care plans
PPM has "stop loss" features that track preauthorized
treatment programs and issue warnings before benefits are exhausted.
Concurrent
authorizations are supported for a single patient.
Does PPM support
Relative Value Unit pricing?
Use of RVU pricing is an option in PPM and all three compo-nents are
tracked. RVU is used for billing Medicare and certain MCO's, and it
is highly useful for calculating the relative value
of labor performed by employee doctors.
What are the
electronic claims and remittance features?
At the click of a single button, PPM files all of your insurance claims
via the McKesson Transaction Solutions Hub, and it retrieves and prints
both clearinghouse and carrier reports. McKesson's EHNAC-accredited
EDI clearinghouse processes more than 100 million claims annually,
serving 8,000 health-care organizations. The TSH can automatically
post electronic remittance advisements (ERA) from carriers. All electronic
communications, including claims and remittance are fully
HI-PAA compliant. PPM will file Medicare, Medicaid and Blue
Shield claims directly to the carriers, bypassing the TSH.
And patient statements?...
The McKesson TSH can print and mail your patient statements for less
than it costs you to process and mail these in your own office.
Does claim filing include outpatient surgery
clinics or insti-tutional (Medicare Part A) claims?
Yes, PPM can produce ANSI 837 Institutional claims and file these
electronically directly to carriers.
What about
Appointment scheduling?
Appointments Professional is integrated with PracticePoint Manager.
It schedules doctors, rooms and equipment, and
can be set up to handle multiple offices and profit centers.
Each receptionist can customize the display to highlight his
or her areas of responsibility.
How will PPM handle
our need for special management reports?
PPM is a huge repository of information that can be searched and
mined to produce highly sophisticated analysis reports, spreadsheets
or graphs. The full PPM database links to Microsoft Office and other
programs that are ODBC compliant. You can produce specialized invoices
for contract work, pay
your providers and therapists based on productivity,
or design complex research protocols. There are countless possibilities.
One of PPM’s strongest features is the depth of financial
data that it stores. These data are essential for practices that
are professionally
managed as a business.
Can we link
PPM to other patient management systems?
PracticePoint Manager continuously updates patient manage-ment systems
such as electronic medical records, dictations systems, clinical laboratory
databases, hospital mainframes, and more using standard HL7 medical
information data re-cords. Updates including patient demographics,
diagnoses
and plan coverage are read directly into the other system via TCP/IP
sockets or via a constantly updated file. Dictation
sys-tems from Healthcare One; medical records from MediNotes' Charting
Plus; as well as many others plug right
in to the PPM database. With PPM as your office management system,
you get to select the enhancements that best serve
your practice.
Tell us more about
McKesson Information Solutions
McKesson, Inc., developer of PracticePoint Manager and the world's
largest healthcare services company is dedicated to accelerating the
deployment and adoption of physician office and medical management
solutions. The result: better clinical decision making, improved patient
outcomes and increased satisfaction across the healthcare system.
McKesson combines deep healthcare information technology talent with
the backing of the largest healthcare services provider in the world,
McKesson Information Solutions
employs over 2,000 people nationwide, providing the scale
and capabilities to deliver eHealth solutions to the market rapidly
and effectively. McKesson's employees are dedicated
to improving clinical decision making and streamlining administrative
processes by delivering real-time information
at the point of care.
McKesson's medical management solutions include clinical practice
guidelines that are used by more than 2,100 hospitals and 900 payers
reaching more than 100 million covered lives. McKesson has information
solutions in almost 20 percent of
the nation's 5,000+ practices having more than 50 physicians. McKesson's
nationally accredited EDI clearinghouse
processes more than 100 million claims annually, serving 8,000 healthcare
organizations
Can PracticePoint Manager serve both large and small practices?
McKesson has put all of its experience
into developing and
re-developing PracticePoint Manager. Features
are added
to
keep abreast of the
ever changing economics of reimbursed
healthcare practice. The
database has been redesigned to
stay at the leading edge of network
and database
technology,
so that ever more sophisticated practices can grow
with a
product that won’t become obsolete. Yet they have
not
forgotten their commitment to partnerships and solo practices.
Pricing is based
on network size and is affordably low for
start-up practices.
PracticePoint Manager at every level gives
superlative return
on investment.
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