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I'm wondering if anyone here has tried this combination. My wife has been using EZ claim and a hodge podge of submitting through emdeon and navinet.We are planning to install AC in her office as she needs emr.
I use AC in my office with upload to Office Ally. This has worked great but I desperately need practice mgmt as I cant waint another year till AC's comes online and bug free.
So, my thought process to solve both of these is export from AC to both OA for claims submission and to EZClaim for pm. We'd use EZClaim to post.
Does this sound feasible? Does the exchange between EZClaim and AC allow the two to exchange data back and forth?
Anyone else doing this? I'm hesitant to use the EZClaim clearing house as their fees are not insignificant and OA does it for free.
THanks all for any advice.
Art

I'd be really interesed in the answers to this also.

We don't use Office Ally, but I can tell you the data exchange between AC and EZ Claim is not bi-directional. You can get data out of AC into EZ Claim but you can't transfer data from EZClaim to AC.

We are implementing this as we speak. It is not an easy process. Takes overtime for my biller to transition off previous system and probably 1-2mos before we can be fully reliant on EZ Claims. So far so good though you need a good action plan!

Art, we upload to OA too. We've been trying to wait for AC, but I've been thinking about EZ Claims. Currently, there is little need to import information from EZ-> AC, you just need to understand that payments won't be in AC. Getting your claims accurately into EZ seems the critical part, so that it can be matched up with electonic EOBs.

Any comments on this from anyone? Advice? Oh, what version of EZ should one purchase if you aren't going to submit through them, but want to get the EOBs through them?

Thanks all for replying. It sounds like a few of us in the same boat. The question is will the data going from ac to ez claims be accurate if the payments for visits arent posted in AC(we presently post to AC). Are the claims exported by date (for AC to EZClaim) as you go forward after initial export or does it import the entire database to EZClaim each time you do it. If the second, then i'm concerned the data imported into EZClaim will be incorrect. I'm going to contact EZClaim on this and let everyone know, unless someone here has the answer?
Thanks again,
Art
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It does not import the entire database unless you instruct it to do so. The data import is actually a manual, two-step process. First, in AC you select the date range of bills you want to export. Second, you import that file into EZClaim. It's fairly painless and you have complete control over when and what you export/import.

I am in solo practice with one employee. We've been using AC to EZ claim to office ally ( to quickbooks) for a billing and PM since we opened 4 years ago without any problems. My one employee and I set up the process without any help, and neither of us is particularly experienced in this, so I have to say, it must not be that hard. This year when we had to replace our 'server' we had to reset it all up again, and it is a little challenging, but not at all impossible. However, nothing is bidirectional. I would give you more details, but honestly I don't even have the vocobulary to do so. (That's how pretty much illiterate I am in all of this, and my employee is not really a lot better). So all I am really doing, is testifying that's it's pretty damn easy to do!
Joan

An Idea just hit me here... We're not doing any of this yet but I like what you're all suggesting and cobbling together, sounds workable. And for us who might start with simply wanting to better track the billing service before we give them the possible Big Heave Hoe, and have better input to our QB's too here is what just dawned on me, so either tell me, Great Idea, thanks; or try it and see what happens and then let me know how it works out, or lastly if any of you already know that this is a No-Go dead issue, obviously say so too and try to explain how and why it does work... Thanks. So anyway here we go:

Since the interface is only one way, AC to EZ, and it seems that most of you are later on "Manually" inputting, Posting what does or does NOT come back from the Carriers to EZ I think, believe.... If we would ALL like to have our output to the processing as well as the puny returns (gallows humor there) that we'll all post, how about instead of posting, entering that data on the EZ side, and instead enter it on the AC side to populate AC with the data and then simply (relative term for sure but hang with me here) allow the two programs to do what they do best which is exporting data from AC to EZ and therefore populate both databases with basically the same exact data that way.

As long as this would work, it just a matter of which program you enter the posted claims and then doing the added step of an extra export, import from AC to EZ.... Does this make sense and do any of you believe or know already whether or not this does or should work???? I welcome your more experienced replies since we have yet to play with the other program other than to read their website and some feedback from users previously... Thanks.

Lastly, I now here some of you lamenting about the PM module, version 7 being put off again until sometime next year... If that's true then that's a serious drag for sure... Is there any voodoo that has proven to be somewhat accurate as to what our real ETA for the PM and V7 might really be other than what is posted here by Jon in his every so often updates???

The infamous and ever Ellusive PM module.... Sounds like Groundhogs' Day all over again....

Paul

Which version of EZ Claim would be needed if I'm going to submit claims through Office Ally but want to receive the electrontic remittance advice through EZ? I'd also have to export the billing to EZ, but I would not use it to submit the claim.