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Hi Everyone. I'm a first time poster / long time reader, so please be gentle. In my area we help a few different medical practices and have been looking at Amazing Charts for quite a long time. It seems very impressive and equally impressive is how much information is shared in these forums. So first off thanks to all that contribute. It definitely makes things a lot less intimidating than most EMR communities.

My questions have to do with Practices that are using Version 5 of Amazing Charts in conjunction with Office Ally; along side of Practice Mate. I've read through many posts and it seems that a lot of people are happy with their arrangement until the Practice Management piece is available. I also understand that one can export directly to Office Ally. My questions are:

When using the direct export option to Office Ally is the demographic data then available in Practice Mate?
I believe in the past it was not and we are wondering how much double entry is required.

Has version 5 improved the export issues that users have reported in the past? And if so what other issues still remain? How often are you having to go in and correct claims (everyday or every so often)?

For those using Practice Mate, does it handle your practice needs or do you still have to keep track via alternate means, such as Quick Books?

Sorry for all the questions and thanks in advance for any feedback,

Best regards,

Will

I recenlty started filing claims myself and use Office Ally (OA). Works fine for filing claims. Practice Mate does not allow any importing of data--not even from their own Office Ally system. At least that is what they told me.

I love OA and Practice Mate but we have to do a "double entry". I am waiting patiently for PM for Amazing Charts but it really getting ridiculous. They are what? 6 months behind?! And counting...

I have been doing double entry for 7 months.

I am way behind (Office ally, Practicemate and AC).

I need the PMR yesterday, I just can't keeep up with all the posting.
Completer the version 5.0 (I am in beta testing) and let's gt the PMR going

I wouldn't rush it. Doubly entry stinks now, but you will undoubtedly get much more bang for your buck with this wait. Jon and his team are making sure that we don't get any halfhearted software. His releases are solid, and behind schedule or not, AC pumps out good features at every turn.

Thanks to those that have replied.

So have the problems gone away with the Office Ally export? I just want to make sure I'm prepared for those little "gotchas" that might pop up.

Are people using the Export to Office Ally option or just coding everything through Practice Mate?

Double entry isn't so bad for the short term. My advice will be to wait and go with Practice Mate instead of spending the money on another PM.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks again!

I dump directly to OA and it works fine as long as you do not to add more than 1 modifier, need a modifier AC does not make available (-EP with managed medicaid in my state is a big one), add your CLIA to Line 23 for medicare in-house labs, or add Referring Doc info. To deal with those instances or any other predict will cause a denial I have created a dummy CPT in AC I call NEEDS EDIT which OA does not recognize and then automatically dumps it back to me before sending through to the payor. I can then "correct" it as needed and submit it.

I do the AC/practice mate. I code out as I go. My husband keeps another database that meets our needs, so we kind of have triple entry, but it works for us.

Nice to see another doc from the Show Me State!
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