Guest guest Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 Re hdhps- where do you find time to check elig? We havent found an easy non time consuming way to do this before a visit? Weakland, MDBallard Neighborhood Doctors5416 Ave NWSeattle, WA 98107Phone: Fax: Re: what EMR: Practice Fusion. Its free and on the cloud, and although I can think of ways it could be better, it works as well or better than every other of 25 systems I used rotating around town in med school and residency. I pay for Kareo $149/month (so my billing costs are 1%). Never tried any other billing system but Kareo seems ok - I was frustrated with it at first mostly because there was a learning curve (esp w Capario the clearinghouse, and setting up electronic claims and ERAs with each payer). Also using Ring Central for faxes ($10/mo), and Supersaas for online scheduling (free) - but very few of our patients schedule themselves. In fact, most just walk in, or if they do schedule, they show up hours or days early or late. Re: less paperwork: Medicaid (60% of the pts) is actually my easiest payer, and having 23% self pay or free means less paperwork. But the other 17% represents 7 payers including MCR, and does take some chasing in circles. I see alot of patients with hdhps (high deductible plans) - I check their elig and if they haven't met deductible, I charge them upfront the full 99203 contracted rate (often like $114) - I have had a number leave before being seen, because they didn't realize how their plan works. Some take the option I give to hide their card and be a selfpay patient. Re Impcamp: unfortunately have a wedding to go to Sat evening so could only come for half the time, not sure worth the flight. > > > > > > = Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 mELISSA ,phreesia's user interface is slick, has payment plans, ability to keep credit card on file, email receipts.......Sangeetha Re hdhps- where do you find time to check elig? We havent found an easy non time consuming way to do this before a visit? Weakland, MDBallard Neighborhood Doctors 5416 Ave NWSeattle, WA 98107Phone: Fax: Re: what EMR: Practice Fusion. Its free and on the cloud, and although I can think of ways it could be better, it works as well or better than every other of 25 systems I used rotating around town in med school and residency. I pay for Kareo $149/month (so my billing costs are 1%). Never tried any other billing system but Kareo seems ok - I was frustrated with it at first mostly because there was a learning curve (esp w Capario the clearinghouse, and setting up electronic claims and ERAs with each payer). Also using Ring Central for faxes ($10/mo), and Supersaas for online scheduling (free) - but very few of our patients schedule themselves. In fact, most just walk in, or if they do schedule, they show up hours or days early or late. Re: less paperwork: Medicaid (60% of the pts) is actually my easiest payer, and having 23% self pay or free means less paperwork. But the other 17% represents 7 payers including MCR, and does take some chasing in circles. I see alot of patients with hdhps (high deductible plans) - I check their elig and if they haven't met deductible, I charge them upfront the full 99203 contracted rate (often like $114) - I have had a number leave before being seen, because they didn't realize how their plan works. Some take the option I give to hide their card and be a selfpay patient. Re Impcamp: unfortunately have a wedding to go to Sat evening so could only come for half the time, not sure worth the flight. > > > > > > = Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 Phreesia has a demo at http://www.phreesia.com/demo.aspx. For now, I prefer the way my EMR handles check in by covering all demographic information including the stuff meaningless use requires. It seems that part of getting all the demographic information needed is still a sales job. For example, some people are reluctant to give their cell phone number, an emergency phone number, their email address, etc. until someone reminds them why it can be to their benefit. In my office that’s a big part of what checkout is all about along with reminders about upcoming appointments, schedule readjustments as patients reconsider their life, and a personal thank you along with reminders we are available 24/7. With about 2800 active patients, afterhours calls requiring me are rare now that my automated phone assistant screens calls. The Phreesia demo is slick. What does Phreesia cost now? Seems like it was free when they got started. Guess some things are too good to stay “Phree.” Neighbors, MDHuntsville, Alabama Solo using FlexMedical EMR/Billing since 2/2009Attested MU in 2011 From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Sangeetha MurthySent: Friday, August 31, 2012 10:17 PMTo: Subject: Re: Re: my #s mELISSA , phreesia's user interface is slick, has payment plans, ability to keep credit card on file, email receipts.......Sangeetha Re hdhps- where do you find time to check elig? We havent found an easy non time consuming way to do this before a visit? Weakland, MDBallard Neighborhood Doctors5416 Ave NWSeattle, WA 98107Phone: Fax: Re: what EMR: Practice Fusion. Its free and on the cloud, and although I can think of ways it could be better, it works as well or better than every other of 25 systems I used rotating around town in med school and residency. I pay for Kareo $149/month (so my billing costs are 1%). Never tried any other billing system but Kareo seems ok - I was frustrated with it at first mostly because there was a learning curve (esp w Capario the clearinghouse, and setting up electronic claims and ERAs with each payer). Also using Ring Central for faxes ($10/mo), and Supersaas for online scheduling (free) - but very few of our patients schedule themselves. In fact, most just walk in, or if they do schedule, they show up hours or days early or late. Re: less paperwork: Medicaid (60% of the pts) is actually my easiest payer, and having 23% self pay or free means less paperwork. But the other 17% represents 7 payers including MCR, and does take some chasing in circles. I see alot of patients with hdhps (high deductible plans) - I check their elig and if they haven't met deductible, I charge them upfront the full 99203 contracted rate (often like $114) - I have had a number leave before being seen, because they didn't realize how their plan works. Some take the option I give to hide their card and be a selfpay patient.Re Impcamp: unfortunately have a wedding to go to Sat evening so could only come for half the time, not sure worth the flight.> >> >> >= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 ,I use the phreesia pads only for new patients, I use the web portal for established patients ( very fast). I believe there are integrations with AC and some other emrs Sangeetha mELISSA ,phreesia's user interface is slick, has payment plans, ability to keep credit card on file, email receipts....... Sangeetha Re hdhps- where do you find time to check elig? We havent found an easy non time consuming way to do this before a visit? Weakland, MDBallard Neighborhood Doctors 5416 Ave NWSeattle, WA 98107Phone: Fax: Re: what EMR: Practice Fusion. Its free and on the cloud, and although I can think of ways it could be better, it works as well or better than every other of 25 systems I used rotating around town in med school and residency. I pay for Kareo $149/month (so my billing costs are 1%). Never tried any other billing system but Kareo seems ok - I was frustrated with it at first mostly because there was a learning curve (esp w Capario the clearinghouse, and setting up electronic claims and ERAs with each payer). Also using Ring Central for faxes ($10/mo), and Supersaas for online scheduling (free) - but very few of our patients schedule themselves. In fact, most just walk in, or if they do schedule, they show up hours or days early or late. Re: less paperwork: Medicaid (60% of the pts) is actually my easiest payer, and having 23% self pay or free means less paperwork. But the other 17% represents 7 payers including MCR, and does take some chasing in circles. I see alot of patients with hdhps (high deductible plans) - I check their elig and if they haven't met deductible, I charge them upfront the full 99203 contracted rate (often like $114) - I have had a number leave before being seen, because they didn't realize how their plan works. Some take the option I give to hide their card and be a selfpay patient. Re Impcamp: unfortunately have a wedding to go to Sat evening so could only come for half the time, not sure worth the flight. > > > > > > = Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 Use lastpass for password management. So worth it checking elig: I just look it up on the websites. I mean, each payer has a website, where I login and check eligibility and benefits. Since I have like 7 payers, that means keeping track of 7 logins passwords etc, but I have links created on my igoogle page, with hints at my passwords, so it is quick (with everything electronic, I imagine we all keep track of 50 different logins somehow). I only have 1-2 private payer patients per day, and it takes like 3 minutes for each, really not so bad that I want to pay more for a service to do this. Medicaid: the website is a bit cumbersome, but ultimately works the same. My MA does those checks, takes her about 1 minute to do. Medicare: is the only truly onerous one. They have no website. You have to get on the phone and press a ridiculous number of buttons (including pressing four buttons for every one letter)...it takes 5-10 minutes. Government inefficiency at its finest. Luckily we only get like 2 MCR visits per month. I imagine services like Phreesia do it much quicker. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 It has browser extensions auto fill abilities. It's free or premium $12 Use lastpass for password management. So worth it checking elig: I just look it up on the websites. I mean, each payer has a website, where I login and check eligibility and benefits. Since I have like 7 payers, that means keeping track of 7 logins passwords etc, but I have links created on my igoogle page, with hints at my passwords, so it is quick (with everything electronic, I imagine we all keep track of 50 different logins somehow). I only have 1-2 private payer patients per day, and it takes like 3 minutes for each, really not so bad that I want to pay more for a service to do this. Medicaid: the website is a bit cumbersome, but ultimately works the same. My MA does those checks, takes her about 1 minute to do. Medicare: is the only truly onerous one. They have no website. You have to get on the phone and press a ridiculous number of buttons (including pressing four buttons for every one letter)...it takes 5-10 minutes. Government inefficiency at its finest. Luckily we only get like 2 MCR visits per month. I imagine services like Phreesia do it much quicker. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 Phreesia is not free. It costed $1 for every $25 processed. If copay is $30, Phreesia takes $2, etc. I cancelled it a few months ago. The cost is one thing, but for most patients, it takes forever to check in. If I only use for new patients, I might not get to the min $1500/ month of the copay, there is another $50/ month. Only a few of the tech savvy ones loved it, like self checking in at airport. For most patients, they continue to put in loooooong medical history into the phreesia pad. Medicare has a website. Once you set up the sign in, you can check lots of things just as other payer. www.onlineproviderservices.com ( your state might be different, worth to check) Wen San Mateo, CA It has browser extensions auto fill abilities. It's free or premium $12 Use lastpass for password management. So worth it checking elig: I just look it up on the websites. I mean, each payer has a website, where I login and check eligibility and benefits. Since I have like 7 payers, that means keeping track of 7 logins passwords etc, but I have links created on my igoogle page, with hints at my passwords, so it is quick (with everything electronic, I imagine we all keep track of 50 different logins somehow). I only have 1-2 private payer patients per day, and it takes like 3 minutes for each, really not so bad that I want to pay more for a service to do this. Medicaid: the website is a bit cumbersome, but ultimately works the same. My MA does those checks, takes her about 1 minute to do. Medicare: is the only truly onerous one. They have no website. You have to get on the phone and press a ridiculous number of buttons (including pressing four buttons for every one letter)...it takes 5-10 minutes. Government inefficiency at its finest. Luckily we only get like 2 MCR visits per month. I imagine services like Phreesia do it much quicker. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 My new patients love it. Don't use our four established patients for payments except for payment plans and creed card on file.I use kareo. The choice was kareo,s eligibility for$50 or this for$50 with new patient check in being much more efficient, all paperwork completed. Typos due to android swipe keyboard auto complete Phreesia is not free. It costed $1 for every $25 processed. If copay is $30, Phreesia takes $2, etc. I cancelled it a few months ago. The cost is one thing, but for most patients, it takes forever to check in. If I only use for new patients, I might not get to the min $1500/ month of the copay, there is another $50/ month. Only a few of the tech savvy ones loved it, like self checking in at airport. For most patients, they continue to put in loooooong medical history into the phreesia pad. Medicare has a website. Once you set up the sign in, you can check lots of things just as other payer. www.onlineproviderservices.com ( your state might be different, worth to check) Wen San Mateo, CA It has browser extensions auto fill abilities. It's free or premium $12 Use lastpass for password management. So worth it checking elig: I just look it up on the websites. I mean, each payer has a website, where I login and check eligibility and benefits. Since I have like 7 payers, that means keeping track of 7 logins passwords etc, but I have links created on my igoogle page, with hints at my passwords, so it is quick (with everything electronic, I imagine we all keep track of 50 different logins somehow). I only have 1-2 private payer patients per day, and it takes like 3 minutes for each, really not so bad that I want to pay more for a service to do this. Medicaid: the website is a bit cumbersome, but ultimately works the same. My MA does those checks, takes her about 1 minute to do. Medicare: is the only truly onerous one. They have no website. You have to get on the phone and press a ridiculous number of buttons (including pressing four buttons for every one letter)...it takes 5-10 minutes. Government inefficiency at its finest. Luckily we only get like 2 MCR visits per month. I imagine services like Phreesia do it much quicker. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 My new patients love it. Don't use our four established patients for payments except for payment plans and creed card on file.I use kareo. The choice was kareo,s eligibility for$50 or this with new patient check in being much more efficient Typos due to auto complete Phreesia is not free. It costed $1 for every $25 processed. If copay is $30, Phreesia takes $2, etc. I cancelled it a few months ago. The cost is one thing, but for most patients, it takes forever to check in. If I only use for new patients, I might not get to the min $1500/ month of the copay, there is another $50/ month. Only a few of the tech savvy ones loved it, like self checking in at airport. For most patients, they continue to put in loooooong medical history into the phreesia pad. Medicare has a website. Once you set up the sign in, you can check lots of things just as other payer. www.onlineproviderservices.com ( your state might be different, worth to check) Wen San Mateo, CA It has browser extensions auto fill abilities. It's free or premium $12 Use lastpass for password management. So worth it checking elig: I just look it up on the websites. I mean, each payer has a website, where I login and check eligibility and benefits. Since I have like 7 payers, that means keeping track of 7 logins passwords etc, but I have links created on my igoogle page, with hints at my passwords, so it is quick (with everything electronic, I imagine we all keep track of 50 different logins somehow). I only have 1-2 private payer patients per day, and it takes like 3 minutes for each, really not so bad that I want to pay more for a service to do this. Medicaid: the website is a bit cumbersome, but ultimately works the same. My MA does those checks, takes her about 1 minute to do. Medicare: is the only truly onerous one. They have no website. You have to get on the phone and press a ridiculous number of buttons (including pressing four buttons for every one letter)...it takes 5-10 minutes. Government inefficiency at its finest. Luckily we only get like 2 MCR visits per month. I imagine services like Phreesia do it much quicker. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 Does LastPass give you an easy way to dump usernames and passwords to a printable file. I would probably want a copy in a safe place in case I crash and for whatever reason can’t recover my encrypted file. What LastPass premium feature have you found useful? From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Sangeetha MurthySent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 11:05 AMTo: Subject: Re: Re: my #s Use lastpass for password management. So worth it checking elig: I just look it up on the websites. I mean, each payer has a website, where I login and check eligibility and benefits. Since I have like 7 payers, that means keeping track of 7 logins passwords etc, but I have links created on my igoogle page, with hints at my passwords, so it is quick (with everything electronic, I imagine we all keep track of 50 different logins somehow). I only have 1-2 private payer patients per day, and it takes like 3 minutes for each, really not so bad that I want to pay more for a service to do this. Medicaid: the website is a bit cumbersome, but ultimately works the same. My MA does those checks, takes her about 1 minute to do. Medicare: is the only truly onerous one. They have no website. You have to get on the phone and press a ridiculous number of buttons (including pressing four buttons for every one letter)...it takes 5-10 minutes. Government inefficiency at its finest. Luckily we only get like 2 MCR visits per month. I imagine services like Phreesia do it much quicker. > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 android accessSangeetha Does LastPass give you an easy way to dump usernames and passwords to a printable file. I would probably want a copy in a safe place in case I crash and for whatever reason can’t recover my encrypted file. What LastPass premium feature have you found useful? From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Sangeetha Murthy Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 11:05 AMTo: Subject: Re: Re: my #s Use lastpass for password management. So worth it checking elig: I just look it up on the websites. I mean, each payer has a website, where I login and check eligibility and benefits. Since I have like 7 payers, that means keeping track of 7 logins passwords etc, but I have links created on my igoogle page, with hints at my passwords, so it is quick (with everything electronic, I imagine we all keep track of 50 different logins somehow). I only have 1-2 private payer patients per day, and it takes like 3 minutes for each, really not so bad that I want to pay more for a service to do this. Medicaid: the website is a bit cumbersome, but ultimately works the same. My MA does those checks, takes her about 1 minute to do. Medicare: is the only truly onerous one. They have no website. You have to get on the phone and press a ridiculous number of buttons (including pressing four buttons for every one letter)...it takes 5-10 minutes. Government inefficiency at its finest. Luckily we only get like 2 MCR visits per month. I imagine services like Phreesia do it much quicker. > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 https://lastpass.com/support.php?cmd=showfaq & id=1206 You can go to your LastPass Icon > Tools > Export To to export your usernames and passwords into one of several formats. You can export in a .csv file (comma separated value) - essentially an Excel spreadsheet. You can also export back to your browser password manager. Another option is exporting to an encrypted file, which can then be read by LastPass Pocket: http://helpdesk.lastpass.com/lastpass-pocket/. Sangeetha Does LastPass give you an easy way to dump usernames and passwords to a printable file. I would probably want a copy in a safe place in case I crash and for whatever reason can’t recover my encrypted file. What LastPass premium feature have you found useful? From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Sangeetha Murthy Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 11:05 AMTo: Subject: Re: Re: my #s Use lastpass for password management. So worth it checking elig: I just look it up on the websites. I mean, each payer has a website, where I login and check eligibility and benefits. Since I have like 7 payers, that means keeping track of 7 logins passwords etc, but I have links created on my igoogle page, with hints at my passwords, so it is quick (with everything electronic, I imagine we all keep track of 50 different logins somehow). I only have 1-2 private payer patients per day, and it takes like 3 minutes for each, really not so bad that I want to pay more for a service to do this. Medicaid: the website is a bit cumbersome, but ultimately works the same. My MA does those checks, takes her about 1 minute to do. Medicare: is the only truly onerous one. They have no website. You have to get on the phone and press a ridiculous number of buttons (including pressing four buttons for every one letter)...it takes 5-10 minutes. Government inefficiency at its finest. Luckily we only get like 2 MCR visits per month. I imagine services like Phreesia do it much quicker. > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 Here are the other popular password managers, to my eyes they all have the same features, Lastpass looks like the least slickhttp://www.bestvendor.com/best/password-managers Sangeetha Does LastPass give you an easy way to dump usernames and passwords to a printable file. I would probably want a copy in a safe place in case I crash and for whatever reason can’t recover my encrypted file. What LastPass premium feature have you found useful? From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Sangeetha Murthy Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 11:05 AMTo: Subject: Re: Re: my #s Use lastpass for password management. So worth it checking elig: I just look it up on the websites. I mean, each payer has a website, where I login and check eligibility and benefits. Since I have like 7 payers, that means keeping track of 7 logins passwords etc, but I have links created on my igoogle page, with hints at my passwords, so it is quick (with everything electronic, I imagine we all keep track of 50 different logins somehow). I only have 1-2 private payer patients per day, and it takes like 3 minutes for each, really not so bad that I want to pay more for a service to do this. Medicaid: the website is a bit cumbersome, but ultimately works the same. My MA does those checks, takes her about 1 minute to do. Medicare: is the only truly onerous one. They have no website. You have to get on the phone and press a ridiculous number of buttons (including pressing four buttons for every one letter)...it takes 5-10 minutes. Government inefficiency at its finest. Luckily we only get like 2 MCR visits per month. I imagine services like Phreesia do it much quicker. > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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