A 1,000–2,000 employee accountable health care company providing data-driven virtual care management programs for chronic metabolic disorders.
Clinical encounters are documented in athenaOne, its Electronic Health Records (EHR) and claims billing system, but nonclinical engagement activity is recorded in the company’s proprietary program management system. This created a bottleneck for the charge capture of nonclinical claims, which were manually entered using reports from the proprietary system. This resulted in delays for claims submission and related payments. Additionally, patient creation in the EHR claims billing system for certain nonclinical programs was a manual process.
There was a critical need for systematic, integrated process workflows across the company’s program related systems to automate patient creation and claims billing.
Moss Adams was brought on board to provide a solution for automating revenue cycle management for nonclinical encounters and charges as well as nonclinical program patient creation.
Advisors worked with the client to understand the situation, develop requirements for automating manual efforts, create design specifications for the Patient Creation and Claims Billing automation effort, and implemented the automated flows.
Advisors worked to automate the Upstream Encounter Data to the EHR integration by:
The solution included:
The company expects:
Prior to engaging with Moss Adams, the company typically took 3–6 months from time of encounter to claim submission. The company is now able to process automated claims within 30–40 days with minimal manual intervention.
For more information on how integrating disparate systems and automating the revenue cycle can help your organization, please contact your Moss Adams professional.