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I hope this is the right place to suggest to AC:

Hope AC will team with BC BS Michigan EDI to send claims- once AC has its own PM. This service is free and will avoid any extra clearing house fees.

http://www.bcbsm.com/providers/help/faqs/electronic-connectivity-edi.html

http://www.bcbsm.com/content/dam/pu...a-edi-health-care-claim-professional.pdf

Any help in getting around the clearing houses would be great. That's around $2000 a year for us. I was really pissed when I found out that all the standardization set by HIPAA was essentially worthless. I managed to submit claims directly to BCBS and Medicare for all of 2 years before the PM software dropped direct submission. That could be a deal maker for me. Of course, not a peep from a any of our societies -AMA, AAFP - anyone about trying to enforce better standardization so that a PM software could actually create a claim that could work at any insurance company.

I recently began using the Office Ally clearinghouse and it is GREAT.
FREE for all commercial carriers. Flat fee of $19.95 per month if more than 50% of your claims are governmental. I enrolled and was submitting claims in 2 days. It was easy to set up, they logged in to set it up with our PM software. Nothing to install on your system, it is web based. If your PM software can print a claim, you can use OA. They extract a text file, then convert it to the 837 format to go to the insurers. Send all of your claims in one action versus individually to insurers.

A la Wendell, did I say it was FREE?

Donna,
I used OA also and found it to be fantastic.

Of course, Leslie, you were ahead of me in all things AC/office, my twin!

Oh no, no....I learned an enormous number of things from you! But I do think we would have made a great team in practice. Many of the same philosophies.

And, it would have been so much FUN!
Too bad we are not in the same geography.