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Congrats to Kareo!
RichardP:
Some of the features Kareo has would be great if they worked.
We are in brand new territory here. It is going to be a while before we even know what are the right questions to ask, nevermind what are the answers. With the government pushing electronic everything in health care, a number of organizations are trying to provide solutions for the offices that want to comply, but don't have mega-bucks for hardware, software, and an IT staff. The HL7 Interface Standards are designed to help make this happen - by allowing different software programs to talk to each other. But like with any new technology, it will take a while to work out the kinks.
http://www.hl7standards.com/blog/2010/03/04/hl7-interface-an-overview/
One of our clients wanted to use Practice Fusion (and now does), so I dug in and learned how it works. Documentation was slim, but Q&A on the Internet provided a wealth of information. One of the major complaints was the lack of ability to pass info between Practice Fusion and Kareo (this being a complaint directed at Kareo, not PF). The technology companies on thin budgets like Practice Fusion, Kareo, Office Ally, and others are going to take baby steps in implementing the features of their programs as well as the HL7 connection (think how many payors they need to be able to "talk" to through the HL7 interface). Little by little, new features are incorporated and brought on-line. (It seems like every few weeks, some new feature is brought to life on Office Ally.) The larger organizations that have the big bucks to bring a more complete product to market are also going to charge the bigger buck for that product. If you cannot afford the more expensive (and more complete / useable) programs, you have no choice but to settle for programs that don't yet do what you need them to do.
On the other hand, if your doctor has 10 or fewer full-time employees, Medicare will allow you to send paper claims. The non-Medicare insurance carriers will have their own standard - but I haven't encountered one yet that will not accept paper claims or send out paper EOBs.
If you find an inexpensive program that will do everything you need, in the way you want it done, please be sure to post that information here. I think it will be a long while before you find such a program.
tallmanusa:
Richard, since you asked, here are some programs where EHR and PM are fully integrated.
1 Mitochon: small California company free to providers, makes money by advertisements
2. Healthfusion/ Medi touch; one of the best. My favorite.
3. ichartsmd; very reasonably priced, they claim to white label a new platform for Kareo, available soon.
4. Advanced MD; expensive but very good.
5. Greenway; Public company, very good.
There are many others.
Kareo is a system not good, but not bad either; they are very popular, because they advertise to the hilt, and pay high commissions to the sales agents. They also offer low prices with minimal or no support.
And send their back office work to India, money, money and more money.
Imagine you sell a tomato for a dollar but it costs you only ten cents.
I am not sure these tomatoes are any good.
RGHS_2012:
RichardP you make a very good point. The changes coming to health care and insurance are requiring all of us to look ways to meet the requirement. I’m sure we will eventually look back on this, wipe the sweat from our brow, thank God we made it through and have a little chuckle…those of us who last through all this mess. :-\
Tallmanusa you hit the nail on the head!!!
PMRNC:
--- Quote ---RichardP you make a very good point. The changes coming to health care and insurance are requiring all of us to look ways to meet the requirement. I’m sure we will eventually look back on this, wipe the sweat from our brow, thank God we made it through and have a little chuckle…those of us who last through all this mess.
--- End quote ---
Here's something many providers and billing companies are NOT looking at... how will providers deal with the patients who resist the technology? My own attorney is involved in that whole other rhelm :)
RichardP:
... how will providers deal with the patients who resist the technology?
According to the conspiracy theorists on the internet, there are FEMA camps already prepared for these folks. :-\
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