Jack,
Glad you vented, because even though our group of 8 docs just recently upgraded our lytec to lytec 11 as our PM, I had a similar question in my mind. I asked our IT guy about switching over to the Amazing Chart PM when it comes out, and he strongly urged to give any new PM a few years, and he said often the software is either strong suited to be an EHR or a PM, but in his experience to do find a product that does both exceptionally well isn't out there.
I have always used a paper superbill and circled the codes manually. But have found that by adding a few quick codes in the admin section, over the past month after dictating my note produce the superbill out of AC and staple to my old paper super bill with all of the demographic data and the gals who do our in house billing love it--easier to read and more efficient with data entry.
So maybe I will be able to PDF the superbill to our in office billing gals in the near future, but for now this is working for me. Maybe you are already doing this but if you choose to go with AC as the PM or utilize another software product, getting into the habit of printing out the superbill from AC seems more efficient and the billers can read the data entry much easier. I hope this does not sound too pedantic, as this is not my intention, just have been amazed over the past month how much easier capturing the billing data doing the superbill this way has been for me. jimmie
