tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24884963735626478722010-03-05T20:12:41.979-08:00This site is for ECLIPSE® Practice Management Software users. This is not intended to be a support site. Share because it makes you happy... HAPPY PEOPLE don't complain... so no whining here!debra@52weeks.bizdebra@52weeks.bizBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2488496373562647872.post-2098976885905910112009-10-25T18:00:00.001-07:002009-10-25T18:06:42.372-07:00

It's the Obvious Choice!week 44 ECLIPSE® v11 We all have a few folks we can't seem to find or identify by their last name or first for some not so obvious reasons. Take for example, hyphenated names, or maybe the client is a child with a different last name the father, or the legal insurance name is different than the pedestrian name, no matter the culture, the alias listing-whatever the

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5 Reasons Why You Should…week 43 ECLIPSE® v11 Automatically Date and Record that you made a note.Detail Financials made with your patient/Client.Detail when changes have been made to information and updating a patient folders.Log issues with claims processing and payment for the insurance or payer.Detail miscellaneous events and actions for all staff follow-up.You can't remember every detail

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Label Printers and More!week 42 ECLIPSE® v11When clicking on the "Mailing Label Button" in the Personal Folder you are directed to the "clipboard" feature allowing you to integrate the use of a label printer. This is a very handy feature in creating file folder labels and the like. By selecting your criteria here, you can paste the data that exists in ECLIPSE to the software application of the

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Members-Onlyweek 44 ECLIPSE® v11 Did you know, once you configure an e-mail server you can e-mail a patient articles, newsletters and forms form the EHR tab. You can also send a text reminder from the "appointment scheduler". I have even used it as a collection tool. How's that for tricking out your system. <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US

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No Wasted Expense!week 40 ECLIPSE® v11Doctor says… can you print me out a report for the CPA… we need to analyze our overhead, compare our reimbursement ratios and see what other catastrophes' we can avoid to keep this practice running fiscally fit!Just by exploring some of the features in the Manage Care Reports - you can do even more with the following:Average Reimbursement Analysis this

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...When, Where, and for As Long As You Need It!week 39 ECLIPSE® v11Long ago I came to realize that submitting and tracking authorizations was becoming a shell game on a roulette table. I don't care how many stacks or notebooks I created – more things got missed or lost no matter how many hours I set aside raking over the information weekly, daily, hourly. It actually got to a point where the

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You Won't Lose Any More Sleep Over...week 38 ECLIPSE® v11Let's see, I have to remember to ask L. Alexander for her updated phone number, I better make a note to have the staff do a financial with A. Coleman when he comes in next week since I'll be gone…I know, you know to write it down so you don't lose sleep over it. Let's face it you can't remember everything and be there every minute to

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When's the Last Time You Were In?week 37 ECLIPSE® v11 How do I find out who hasn't scheduled lately?Well, you could do it the old tried and true method… by memory or some sort of check off list you have used over the years. Better yet, if you are using the appointment scheduler, why not use the point and click "Patient Visit Tracer" Eclipse® has well established since it's initial software

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How Much Is Your Company Spending on Marketing?week 36 ECLIPSE® v11If you don't need to spend the big bucks on marketing, that you don't have anyways, why not use what you do have. Did you know that you have your own little market department in your bag of Reports. Yep! Really!Let's start with the Mailing labels feature. You can include or exclude people depending on the resource of the mailing

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Who Can Put A Price On______?week 35 ECLIPSE® v11 Is there really a way to easily track and order my products? You bet your silver dollar there is. Yes there is a little programming involved in your CPT database tables, but well worth managing, tracking and itemizing your stock and staple. It's certainly a better option than it just walking out the door with no accountability isn't it?When

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Reach Your Full Potential! week 34 ECLIPSE® v11 More or less the "Statistics Tool" let's you measure your production-you know keep on eye on the results! The two-report types discussed here are the date range and specific year with each of their own highlights! This report is typically used daily and weekly and can be filtered to fashion any specified report. The "specific year" report

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Who's Account Has A BalanceThat We Need To Keep Our Eyes On?week 33 ECLIPSE® v11 Typically we recommend running a standardized format of this list using specific filters for your end of the month reports as well as another report to accompany your aged reports categorized by profile as your work account monthly.There are more than a thousand and one ways to run a patient list to match the

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How Much Is Due,How Long Has It Been Since We Billed It? week 32 ECLIPSE® v11So the doctor wants to know ; of all your Blue Cross patients that have been billed in the last 3 months, which patients owe money still and which bills have not yet been paid from the insurance, as well as contact info for both the patient and insurance company. No Problem! The "Aged Reports" can be complied with

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Success Starts With Definition week 31 ECLIPSE® v11 Eclipse® currently offers you 4 categories in "User Defined Data" consisting of the following:Adjustment Types allows you to create a list of "write-offs" to track everything from insurance credits to "patient credits" of your choosing.Alert Types is a list you create to track any specific alert or a category of important alerts than can be

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This One Has Specific Requirements!week 30 ECLIPSE® v11 Today's industry standards require us to pay attention to some of the options specific to your specialty and carrier guidelines. The settings offered in the Payor database are uniquely different than the paper billing set-up that has worked in the past. Other settings are built in to your software for the region you are in. You should

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ECLIPSE® Can Do That?week 29 ECLIPSE®The provider database table allows you to manage and configure the default demographics, billing ID's and appointment schedule for every provider in your clinic. The "Provider/Payor Billing ID's" database allows you to be more specific and detailed in conforming to billing standards for other carriers. Additionally the Plus, Advance and Multi-facility

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Protect Your Patient, Provider and Staff!week 28 ECLIPSE® v11 "I didn't do it …" Hmmm, I never hear that anymore, I just go the entry, audit log or user log and I know- no excuses. When properly configured user activity is tracked and managed by the user's permissions and access assigned. This is not area of open access to everyone using your system. So for many of you will sharing is

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Did You Know, We Track It All?week 27 ECLIPSE® v11 Remember the old days… when you had to journal, save and file everything you did to track whether or not you got paid on a claim or statement you sent last month, three months or a year or so ago? What's that… YOUR STILL DOING IT NOW… my apologies I meant no harm. WHY?ECLIPSE was designed to make your day. A separate database was created to

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All the Features You'd Expect!eek 26 ECLIPSE®Did you know, you can post a single insurance check issued to multiple patients in one screen with the same functions as you would post from patient file to patient file? Credits are committed immediately rather than a batch format other programs do at the end of the day.Starting with a registered date, list a payer with the total check amount and

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So Advanced, It's Actually Simple…week 25 ECLIPSE® Did you know the only difference between paper billing and electronic billing starts with selecting it in the "Print/ECS options"? Once that is done your just a few clicks to uploading your claims on line into the clearing house cache – usually through their software set-up. Sure beats folding, sealing, and stamping to beat the mail delivery

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Take the Dreaded Task Out of Billingweek 24 ECLIPSE® v11 Some of you are used to pulling the files daily or weekly copying them, collating and attaching them to bills going out the door for processing your claims. Mind you this is considering a 50% chance of having to do it all again should the claim never show up at all. Also, for some of you who only have a select few cases to do this for,

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Has This Been Billed Out? week 23 ECLIPSE® v11In this example, it's very easy to see what has been generated to a bill and what has not. Looking at the current charges in the screen you can see all but the last line item entry have a bill number logged in the "Bill" column of the ledger screen. Whether "Group Billing" for insurance or billing one by one, ECLIPSE® will automatically assign and

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What's Our Day Look Like?week 22 ECLIPSE® v11 Typically this is one of those reports most offices will review at both the start and end of the day. It's easily generated and updated revealing production for the day. New and specially noted appointments and can be filtered per provider as well as by time shifts. At the close of the day, balance out the daysheet numbers with completed visits

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Post… Audit… Shred!week 21 ECLIPSE® v11 Feeslip - fee/routing slips … can be generated from the desktop appointment scheduler for a grouping of patients, from the reports menu for a specific grouping or individually form the patient print options button. The feeslip can be used by physicians and staff to enter charges and diagnoses during treatment into the computer.Eclipse has a sample feeslip

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Does It All Add Up?week 20 ECLIPSE® v11You know that little rule we follow for keeping tax records… well that applies somewhat here as well! I can't tell you how many times I have had to pull up the entries from a week, a month or even a year ago to audit an entry made, not made, modified or deleted when auditing accounts. Every time I have to access to the accounting daily packet- "the books"

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