Home Forums Discussions General Discussion POLL: The best PM to use with AC

I gave up. I am using Office ally/practice mate. Not connected but the price is right....free. We just started this last week. So give me a month or two to get a majority of our patients entered and then AC should be announcing the new PM. Murphy's law. You will have me to thank.

is it illegal to guess? some have guessed al*****nt since they have booths at primed. i'm using lytec but it's expensive and moreso if requiring xlink to avoid double entry.

i checked out al*****nt site and the interface looks easy - export and import - boom no double entry no extra costs. anyway i'm holding out for some official partner annoucement too. anyone with experience using al*****nt care to comment?

meanwhile icd10 spectre is breathing down our necks, there goes an extra 3% of brainpower during the patient visit encounter for icd10 coding.

i think my brainpower during visit is at
20% emr
15% dragon dictation/typing
10% mu/medicare regs
10% pharmacy managment
3% drug costs
5% explain/guess insurance coverage/cost for recommended services
3% icd9 code (probably 6% for icd10)
5% 99213/214 extra documentation requirements
5% miscellaneous
and... 24% left for actually caring for the patient

what does your patient visit brainpower multitasking piechart look like?

larryw
soloim
cincinnati

Hi Larry,

We have used Altapoint for years. Their PM section is great in my opinion. The billing far surpasses AC, and beats Medisoft hands down.

Here's what I like:
1. Each bill is it's own bill. No "cases" like Medisoft.
2. You enter and specify each line, and info such as CLIA, POS, etc are right there to enter.
3. When entering a bulk remit, you can enter the bulk amount paid and distribute it amongst the patients and dates of service, as well as the particular service within that date. So, if just the lab did not get paid, that remains zero payment while payments for other services are entered.
4. This program keeps the insurance used with that bill. It does not forget old insurance information when patient changes insurance. How many headaches will that reduce?

Here's what I don't like.
They're taking forever to get this done. Their demo does not work, and they do not respond to email except to state that it is disabled on purpose. Why? I can't even import one claim to test it. Just dumb.

re altapoint:

does auto posting work well? is there integrated insurance eligibility checking? how do the statements look? are there enough reports to manage a practice well?

thanks
larryw

Larry,

We've never used autoposting. By bulk remits I mean the remits that have payment for many patients on one check with an explanation of the payments.

When we used that program we used it with Gateway EDI. Haven't been able to do that with AC, since AC outputs the billing in a very goofy way with too many fields missing.

Gateway has patient eligibility checking. Statements look professional. That's easy to do.

I think there are plenty of reports built-in.

Hope this helps.