DEMOGRAPHIC INTERFACES
Every hospital captures patient demographics in a slightly different way. This variability and inconsistencies in the information itself can create significant challenges to the timely and accurate submission of claims for anesthesia. Unlike office-based specialties, hospital-based specialists have very limited resources and options to verify patient insurance and coverage information.
Not only does ABC have extensive experience setting up demographic interfaces with every commonly used hospital information system but First Anesthesia provides interface verification and scrubbing so that the information downloaded for billing is more reliable and useful. This is critical to consistent claims submission. It also allows ABC staff to identify demographic omissions and errors faster so that they can be resolved before the claim is submitted rather than waiting for the costly denial after the fact.
With increasing frequency ABC is also able to establish remote access to the hospital information system so that updates to the initial information can be obtained when necessary. Such tools also allow us to print anesthesia records and other key pieces of the chart without having to bother hospital staff.
Any practice with an exclusive contract with a facility and certainly any practice that receives financial support should realize the value of such connectivity. Timely and accurate claims submission should never be a rate-limiting step to a practice’s financial management. With ABC’s powerful arsenal of interface tools it doesn’t have to be.
