A new service to strengthen the critical link between clinical and financial operations
Wayne, PA Apr 22, 2015 – Precyse, the industry leader in Health Information Management (HIM) performance solutions, announces today the launch of their new consulting services for case management and utilization review (CM/UR). Case Managers and Utilization Review staff can impact quality of care, timely and
appropriate reimbursement, and patient satisfaction – all necessary focus areas for sustainability in the new era of healthcare. Precyse consultants offer CM/UR expertise to revitalize CM/UR programs, and can help provide solutions to help solve some of today’s most challenging issues.
“Case management and utilization review function as a critical link between a healthcare provider’s clinical and financial operations,” said Marion Kruse, RN, MBA, Sr. Managing Director Clinical Services at Precyse. “We are well positioned to provide the best service in the industry because of our well-rounded, seasoned consultants that not only possess expertise in CM/UR, but have experience in other areas, including clinical documentation improvement, coding, and other revenue cycle functions.”
The benefits of CM/UR Consulting Services include:
• Integrating financial and clinical operations for the new era of revenue cycle challenges
• Thriving in a Value-based Purchasing world – improve 30-day Readmission and Medicare Cost per Beneficiary
• Driving down average length of stay
• Reducing cost per case
• Lowering denials related to avoidable days
Precyse’s CM/UR Consulting Service provides a three phase approach including an independent assessment, program redesign and implementation, and on-going performance monitoring of healthcare facilities’ CM/UR program. The offering also includes on-site education provided by practicing physicians and case management experts.
Author: Julie Kaloides
Quantum Health Named #1 Large Employer Workplace By Columbus CEO
Columbus, OH Apr 13, 2015 – Quantum Health, the leader in care coordination and consumer navigation, announced today that it has been ranked as the #1 2015 Columbus CEO and WBNS10TV Top Large Employer Workplace in central Ohio.
The Top Workplace award is determined based solely on employee feedback through a survey, organized by WorkplaceDynamics, LLP, a leading research firm on organizational health and employee engagement. Some perks of employment at Quantum Health noted in the survey include unlimited access to free beverages, snacks, fresh-popped popcorn and catered lunches, access to an on-site fitness facility, and a team space equipped with massage chairs, a game room, and a serenity/meditation room.
Quantum Health has previously been highlighted in other local and national press as a rapidly growing, innovative company, as well as a great place to work. Quantum Health has been recognized as both a FORTUNE Magazine Great Place to Work® and an Entrepreneur Magazine Great Place to Work® listing as a Best Small & Medium Workplace.
“It’s wonderful to receive awards that speak to our culture and our team focus,” Trott said. “Maintaining the well-being of our team means we can better serve our members, so we really focus on making this a great place to come to work everyday—it’s great to be recognized for that effort.”
Quantum Health To Speak At Midwest Business Group On Health’s 35th Annual Conference
Columbus, OH Apr 21, 2015 – Quantum Health founder and Chief Executive Officer Kara Trott will present on the panel “Addressing Waste, Overuse & Inappropriate Care in Today’s Health Care System” alongside David Adams, Chief Executive Officer of HealthcarePays, Roger C. Merrill, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Merrill Health Strategies, and Jan Berger, MD, President & CEO, Health Intelligence Partners, Medical Director, MBGH, at the Midwest Business Group on Health’s 35th Annual Conference. The conference will be held April 29-30, 2015 at the The Mid-America Club in Chicago. The presentation will focus on waste and inappropriate care in the healthcare system, and Quantum Health will speak on lessons learned from over 16 years of coordinating care and guiding consumers toward appropriate utilization.
Precyse Healthcare Information Management Platform Resonates with Providers
The industry’s only technology platform specifically designed to integrate all functions of health information management
Wayne, PA Apr 13, 2015 — Precyse expands its footprint as healthcare providers increasingly embrace the vision of a single, integrated platform to support all aspects of health information management on an enterprise-wide basis. The Precyse platform leverages knowledge gained in delivering stellar health information management services over the past 15 years to a vast array of healthcare organizations. The platform is used today to automate clinical documentation improvement (CDI) and medical coding workflows via a single shared infrastructure. This shared infrastructure, coupled with state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) and enhanced cross-role communication, enables providers to optimize reimbursement, reduce audit risks, and improve quality while lowering the total cost of ownership.
The number of client go lives for the Precyse platform has doubled in the last 6 months as providers understand what is required to prepare for risk sharing and quality-based arrangements. The Precyse technology has continued to evolve to support these requirements – providers and the new healthcare landscape require more than just standalone CAC or CDI specific to inpatient or outpatient workflows, and the Precyse platform has gained in breadth and depth. Customers who were early implementers of technology are reinforcing their commitment to the single integrated approach to help break down silos and open communication among physicians, CDI specialists, coders, auditors and others.
One early adopter, Holyoke Medical Center, is delighted with the latest release from Precyse. Per Laura Piquette, Director of Health Information Management/Privacy Officer “we are experiencing vastly improved throughput and productivity with this latest release and the enhanced integration with the Meditech EMR is invaluable to our coders. In addition, the common infrastructure optimizes our coding and documentation integrity through enhanced coder to CDIS communication. The Precyse implementation team and support teams assigned to Holyoke Medical Center are wonderful to work with.”
The Precyse combined offering of CDI technology and clinical documentation improvement services also continues to see tremendous market momentum, separate from the ICD-10 transition, as clients recognize that improving clinical documentation is foundational to many of their initiatives to improve the quality and reduce the cost of healthcare.
Debra Stenner, Precyse Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, states, “With expanded use of our technology, our customers are not only reaping the benefits of more appropriate reimbursement and better public quality reporting, but many are now looking at ways to rethink their documentation and coding staff’s roles and antiquated workflows to provide even greater efficiency and return on investment.”
Quantum Health Reaches Major Milestone: Over 5 Million Consumer And Provider Connections Made Half A Billion In Savings For Employer Health Plans
Columbus, OH Apr 2, 2015 – Quantum Health, the leader in care coordination and consumer navigation, announced today that it has achieved a major business milestone, making 5,497,028 connections, helping 779,470 consumers and providers more effectively navigate the complex healthcare system. Through this high level of engagement, the company delivers a 5% to 8% reduction in healthcare costs for its self-insured employer clients, which have entrusted over $6 billion in health plan spend with Quantum Health. The company is a disruptive force in the healthcare industry, whose groundbreaking consumer-focused research led to the creation of the care coordination and consumer navigation segment, a sector that is rapidly growing in response to the rise in healthcare consumerism.
“Reaching this major milestone is a testament to the trust our clients and their members have placed in Quantum Health, and to the financial savings, increased engagement and greater employee satisfaction that we deliver,” said Kara Trott, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Quantum Health. “Our clients have found there are many advantages to having employees engaged in their own healthcare journeys. Our clients realize lower spending trend, a more maximized health plan and that their employees have a much better customer experience.”
Quantum Health was the first to define and use consumer behavior process mapping in healthcare by tracking 3,200 patients and 290 providers for two years. From this research, the company built a best-in-class model for care coordination and consumer navigation based on how people experience their healthcare journey, what they need and how best to connect with them.
Over the past 16 years, the company has earned recognition for its ability to deliver dramatic and sustainable results for large self-insured employers. Quantum Health clients experience nearly flat year one healthcare spend and a reduction in trend by year three, a reduction in health benefits related workload, allowing for a great focus on HR strategy, and 92% member satisfaction by providing true patient support and advocacy to employees.
Hockey Game to Raise Awareness About Prostate Cancer
Time Warner Cable News and Hill Country News Showcase HealthTronics Charitable Partnership with Austin Hockey Team
Austin, TX Mar 13, 2015 — Through a unique partnership with the Austin, Texas-based Texas Stars hockey team, HealthTronics is spreading the word about preventing prostate cancer while raising money for cancer research.
Called Pucks for Prostate, HealthTronics will make a contribution to prostate cancer research through the Texas Stars Foundation for every goal the Texas Stars score at home during the 2014-15 hockey season. This includes a special puck giveaway at the March 14 game.
Time Warner Cable News and Hill Country News highlighted the charitable partnership.
CSafe Launches Customer Advisory Board
Dayton, OH Mar 12, 2015 – CSafe, the world’s largest provider of temperature-controlled shipping solutions, exemplified its strong customer relationships with the inaugural meeting of its US Customer Advisory Board. Seven of the world’s top pharmaceutical and healthcare companies gathered with two senior members of the CSafe team at the Aileron center in Dayton, Ohio and discussed a wide range of issues affecting current and future trends in the safe transportation of temperature-sensitive products.
Members considered the changes in regulatory guidance and in particular were concerned about how best to interpret the requirements of Controlled Room Temperature, both domestically and internationally. The topic of the need to implement better Quality Agreements with vendors engaged the group and allowed members to share their own current experiences.
The question of changes in future distribution models for personalized medicine and the solutions that these highly sensitive bio products will need, were also part of the group’s wider discussion on future product developments from CSafe.
After a highly-successful inaugural meeting, the group will meet in six months’ time with an extended educational agenda. CSafe will have their inaugural European Customer Advisory Board meeting later in 2015.
GAFFEY Healthcare Webinar – Automated Claims Statusing Boosts Revenue and Productivity
How much time do your billers spend checking patient claim statuses? Automate the process and put an end to non-revenue generating tasks.
Plano, TX and Pleasanton, CA Mar 11, 2015 – Last week, we made the official announcement that our automated claim statusing software, AutoStatus, is now available as a stand-alone product, completely independent of the AlphaCollector platform. The amount of interest and number of responses that we received was impressive and, in order to meet demand, we’ve decided to host a free webinar to showcase AutoStatus and its collector productivity-enhancing capabilities.
Overview: AutoStatus is a cloud-based screen-scraping platform that interfaces with Medicare and over 200 commercial payers to automate the process of retrieving patient claim statuses & updating accounting systems in a fraction of the time it takes by phone or web portal. It improves business office work-flow by notifying collectors of what claims have been processed, adjudicated or if immediate follow-up is needed. The results are drastic time-savings for collectors and, ultimately, cost savings for facilities.
Who should attend: CEOs, CFOs, Business Office Directors/Managers, Patient Accounting Directors/Managers, Patient Financial Services Directors/Managers
Facilities: Hospitals, health systems, physician groups & surgery centers.
CSafe Global and Total Air Group SEA Service Center Open House
Dayton, OH Mar 9, 2015 – From SEA expansion press release: CSafe Global, in conjunction with Total Air Group, hosted an open house at the TAG service center at SEA. The event was attended by CSafe airline and forwarder partners.
Speaking on behalf of TAG, Michael Silvius, President/CEO commented: “We are very excited about our growing partnership with CSafe and expanding our operation to support CSafe’s customers on the west coast.”
Rick Rackley, CSafe’s Director of Service Centers and Technical Support, added: “The SEA service location has enabled CSafe to support our growing biopharmaceutical customers in transporting high volumes of temperature-sensitive shipments.” Among the attendees were the ones in the picture (left to right): Ian Loy, TAG; Rich Silva, TAG; Rick Rackley, CSafe; Tatjana Grable Lufthansa; Samantha Rosales Unitrans; Angie Martinez Unitrans; Soner Aktas Unitrans; Ken Rappe, Diamond Line Delivery.
Precyse Launches Healthcare eLearning Webinar Solution
Industry leader in healthcare learning solutions offers new affordable, convenient on-demand education alternative.
Wayne, PA Mar 2, 2015 — Precyse, industry leader in Healthcare Information Management solutions and education, announced today the rollout of its new Precyse University™ Webinars On Demand solution ─ an on-line education website that provides dynamic healthcare educational content in live and on-demand webinar formats. This service complements Precyse’s industry leading Precyse University eLearning service that supports more than 1.8 million learners. Precyse University™ Webinars on Demand leverages the knowledge of credentialed healthcare industry experts, including physicians and clinicians, to provide critical knowledge and leading practices focused on topical subjects affecting healthcare today.
Precyse University™ Webinars On Demand offers affordability, quality and convenience, and fills staff knowledge gaps to help achieve goals and initiatives including:
• Clinical Documentation Improvement
• Revenue Cycle
• Preparedness for industry changes and trends
• ICD-9/ICD-10-CM/PCS Coding and Billing
• Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)
• Evaluation and Management (E/M)
• Anatomy and Physiology
• Pathophysiology and Pharmacology
“Similar webinars from other sources can cost significantly more and are very restrictive,” explains Tom Ormondroyd, Vice President and General Manager of Precyse Learning Solutions. “Our Webinars On Demand offers high quality, economic webinars. It helps healthcare facilities maximize their reimbursements, lower financial risk, and optimize staff competencies.”
Webinars are continually added, based on industry trends and learner feedback. The webinars, which are accessible at the convenience of the learner, are mobile enabled; webinars can be viewed on smartphones and tablets. The high quality presentations, which stream at up to 1080p resolution, can be viewed in segments with no limit to how many times webinars can be viewed and offers recommendations on other available webinars based on viewing interests. Some webinars offer Continuing Education Units, as well.