MedAptus Launches 'New' Mobile Coding Solution for the Healthcare Industry

October 22, 2001

MedAptus, Inc. today announced the release of the company's latest version of their industry leading Charges in Hand(TM) mobile coding solution called Professional Edition. The Professional Edition offers medical practices the opportunity to improve practice workflow, financial performance and compliance by providing physicians with a powerful mobile charge capture solution.

The Professional Edition enables medical practices the opportunity to replace cumbersome and error-prone paper based charge capture systems by extending technology to the hands of physicians. Physician-specific patient appointment data are synchronized to each physician's handheld device. Physicians then capture procedure and diagnostic code data for each patient visit and, upon completion, synchronize the data to an administrative interface where charges can be reviewed prior to entry into the practice billing system. Using the administrative interface, practice staff can enter appointment schedules, review completed charges and track activity by physician, by patient or across the entire practice.

Using the intuitive graphical interface of the Charges in Hand(TM) Professional Edition, physicians can more easily identify procedures performed and rapidly access thousands of ICD-9-CM diagnosis and CPT-4 procedure codes. Physician-indicated charges are automatically reviewed against national and regional Medicare billing guidelines using sophisticated rule-sets to assure confident, accurate and standardized physician coding at the point of care.

"Today, most medical practices use information systems to support patient scheduling and billing, but lack a means of connecting the physicians to the billing process. Consequently, the process of providing information to and collecting billing data from physicians is highly inefficient, resulting in lost charges, extended revenue cycles and higher costs," said, Dennis Mitchell President and CEO of MedAptus. "We are excited to be able to offer a solution to these practices."

The Charges in Hand(TM) Professional Edition operates on a hand-held Pocket PC application and can be deployed as either a client server or ASP solution. MedAptus also offers an Enterprise Edition of the Charges in Hand(TM) solution that includes development of interfaces with scheduling, registration and billing systems and more robust administrative functionality to address the complexities of large practices.


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