Wonder if anyone here has any input on the following.

I have Medisoft version 15 network in the office. I submit claims electronically by generating a file in Medisoft which is then uploaded to a clearinghouse, "mdon-line". So far this has been working alright, a bit pricey for the clearinghouse, around $70-$80 a month, but not bad.

Have now been looking into getting the EOB's electronically, the so-called ERA's or Electronic Remittance Advice. The idea being to automatically post the income into the billing program, rather than doing it manually, which should save time.

My clearinghouse can provide the ERA's for $10 a month, that's fine, but getting the data into Medisoft is turning out to be a problem. I don't use a vendor, I have dealt with Medisoft, now owned by McKesson, directly. Medisoft will only support direct importation of ERA's if I use their clearinghouse, RelayHealth, and I can only use RelayHealth if I upgrade to Medisoft version 17 (for about $3,000).

If AC version 7 will actually have practice management built in and if it will support ERA's, I'm probably better off waiting for that. Yes?

Anyone have any thoughts? Anyone have experience with importing ERA's into Medisoft without using RelayHealth?

Thanks for any ideas.

Michael

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Michael Jacobson, MD
Internal Medicine and Cardiology
New York, NY