In today’s healthcare environment, hospitals are faced with decreased reimbursements and not being able to fully staff in some areas, while the number of people seeking emergency care continues to grow significantly each year. These challenges mean that EDs will be even more impacted, and to stay viable, hospitals need to get paid for every element of emergency care provided. Now more than ever, automated processes, especially for charge capture, are necessary because it makes the complex logic required by CMS a computer’s task, not a clinician’s. With heightened regulations and increased scrutiny of how charges are captured and calculated, automated and proven methods are what will provide the most benefit to EDs and hospitals alike.
However, for EDs to be efficient in confronting these challenges, they must leverage easy-to-use and intuitive solutions that function within ED workflows rather than creating barriers to providing care. An EDIS that is a help, not a hindrance, will be more meaningful to clinicians, which means they will be more inclined to adopt and use the technology. These are the foundations upon which MEDHOST’s EDIS is built ... we’ve always focused on clinicians and developed our solution around their needs and workflow.
Our built-in reminders and work lists enable clinicians to effortlessly generate a detailed clinical picture of a patient’s care, and to complement these more complete medical records, the MEDHOST EDIS applies a Charge Capture methodology that essentially translates care into E&M levels, procedures, supplies and charges, including very complex IV infusion logic. This automatic, behind-the-scenes Charge Capture means that every element of care documented is captured and charged with no additional steps and no subjectivity or interpretation by clinicians.
MEDHOST customers have undergone CMS RAC audits, external consulting audits and the scrutiny of their own compliance departments, and our solution has measured up each time. Hospitals leveraging the MEDHOST EDIS typically realize a net payment increase of $50 to $100 per patient visit. For detailed accounts about how our customers achieved financial improvements and achieved rapid ROI from MEDHOST Charge Capture, read about
Beaufort Memorial Hospital and
El Centro Regional Medical Center.
As a clinician advocate, my job is to ensure that our solutions make sense to the end-user and make the hard job of being an ED provider a little easier. MEDHOST goes to great lengths to deliver value to all customers by creating products that are clinician-focused and clinician-friendly, which is why we’ve invested so many resources to automatically translate clinical data into charges behind-the-scenes. It’s a win for clinicians because they have robust tools at their fingertips that help them create very comprehensive medical records. And, it’s a win for hospitals because coding and charge capture are no longer time-consuming, error prone processes, and the financial gains are significant.
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Patricia Daiker RN, BC
VP of Product Strategy