• Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
• Scheduler with Eligibility Test
• Compliance Management
  + Core Elements
  + Regulatory Risks
  + Auditing and Monitoring
  + Documentation Guidelines
  + Audit Exposure Evaluation
• Data Entry and Payment Posting
+ Charge Entry
• Superbill Interface
• Variety of Claim Entry Formats
• Fax
+ Demographic Data Entry

• Coding
  + Coding Consistency
  + Discovery of Undercoding
• Claim Submission to Payers
• Patient Invoicing
• Follow Up
  
+ Discovery of Underpayment

• Transparency, Analysis and Reporting
• Quality Control
  + Billing Process
  • Payment Distributions
  • Days in A/R
  + Claim Validation
  + Patient Eligibility Testing
  
• Data Center
  

EMR contributes to medical practice in four ways:

cost reduction, revenue enhancement, administrative efficiency, clinical efficiency.

2. Revenue enhancement

• Age- and gender-specific care reminders of overdue health maintenance items, generation of letters to patients about overdue visits/services


• Improved billing capture at 1.5-5% of an average charge per visit


• Higher coding level because of improved notes at 3%-15% of an average charge per visit, using templates and "clinical macros.”

Estimated percentage of visits that may be ‘down coded’ due to the additional documentation burden and/or fear of an audit, occasionally reaches 50%. EMR allows for more accurate coding, with the ability to automate full supporting documentation, and built-in coding assistants based on “E and M” guidelines. So, if your practice generates $400,000 then EMR will contribute on average 2% = $8,000.