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New York Healthcare System Expands Use of Streamline Health Document Workflow ...

Streamline Health's Coding Workflow solution streamlines the coding process for medical coders, saving hospitals time and manpower. The solution increases efficiency by giving coders immediate access to electronically stored documents as soon as they are available, instead of waiting for the paper record. Electronically stored documents are automatically routed to the appropriate coder, whether on-site or off, alleviating the burden of on-site personnel. Each coder has the ability to electronically route specific documents to physicians for review and signature, saving physicians' time as well. The workflow eliminates redundant data entry and lets hospitals establish parameters to assign specific, high-dollar charges to key coding personnel. The solution can also be integrated with third-party encoding or abstracting of software, and as an added benefit hospitals can also free up space previously constrained in their HIM department by paper storage.

"We are pleased to expand our relationship with yet another one of our clients," said , president and chief executive officer of Streamline Health. "Our clients understand the real value of our products, and their decision to license our Coding Workflow reflects our ability to provide flexible solutions that meet the specific needs of today's hospitals. This also highlights our commitment to delivering solutions that help today's healthcare organizations achieve their strategic vision of turning paper-based documents into flexible, secure digital assets, a critical issue facing hospitals today."

About Streamline Health

Streamline Health is a leading supplier of document workflow and document management tools, applications and services that assist strategic business partners and healthcare organizations to improve operational efficiencies through business process optimization.  The Company provides integrated tools and technologies for automating document-intensive environments, including document workflow, document management, e-forms, connectivity, optical character recognition (OCR) and business process integration.

Medical billing specialist

One may ask why practices require medical billing specialists. A crucial reason might be that taking up the services of a medical biller or a coder may lower overhead costs and expenses but definitely will help the physician to collect more revenues. Physicians across all states are constantly facing difficulties in insurance coding and payment reimbursement in terms of their insurance claims. For them optimizing reimbursement is accompanied with a lot of complexity since there is flux in the medical billing rules and regulations frequently.

Engaging the services of professional medical billers will help the providers to effectively steer their clinic’s operations towards other functions which can help them grow their practices. Hiring professional services will give the providers an opportunity to manage and organize their business in areas that require critical attention including better patient care, healthcare documentation needs, marketing their own practice and increasing the number of new patients they can retain.

Now, before hiring medical billers, a particular practice should take into considerations a few aspects such as:

1. Experience of Billing Specialists- A thorough and deep understanding of medical billing in terms of  multiple specialties is a necessity for any biller to have a holistic view of the insurance industry. Their experience in handling various processes such as insurance eligibility and benefit verification, charge capture, payment posting, claims transmissions, denial management and follow up on account receivables gives you the confidence to rely on them. [Prerna Gupta] The number of years of experience definitely counts when complex billing situations arise.

2. Medical Billing Software experience – Before hiring a medical billing service, providers should consider that they are appropriately trained in the usage of medical billing software used in your clinic such as Medisoft, Altapoint, NueMD or any other software. An important characteristic to look for in a medical billing software is that it should easily and effectively process both insurance as well as patient billing and should have the capacity to handle different types of claims. These may include secondary or third party claims and workman’s compensation.

3. Flexibility- The term ‘flexibility’ can apply not only to the software but to the billing specialist as they must be willing to learn more. This will be demonstrated by his/her ability to process different types of insurance claims and at the same time handling a number of medical billing situations while dealing with insurance companies and patient queries.

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