e-MDs Announces Upgrade and Enhancement of topsBill Solution for Physicians' Practices
Version 2.0.0 - A True Practice Management Tool That Goes Beyond Daily Billing Functions
Cedar Park, TX -- December 12, 2000 -- e-MDs, a leading provider of clinical and financial information management software for physician practices, announces the upgrade and enhancement of its topsBill application for practice management. topsBill 2.0.0 facilitates collections, costs, information tracking, reporting, analyzing profitability and noting return on investments (ROI) for small to medium-sized physicians' practices.
"The release of topsBill 2.0.0 is consistent with e-MDs' commitment to implement and authenticate the 'paperless medical office," says David Winn, M.D., CEO of e-MDs. "The upgraded software for billing, collecting, monitoring and reporting reflects many improvements and new features including relative value unit (RVU) tracking and automated Medicare and Medicare-based fee schedule calculations. This upgrade will accelerate and simplify daily processing and practice management for our clients."
In addition to many workflow improvements, enhancements to topsBill include a new approach to fee schedules. Unlike its competitors, which charge extra for similar functionality, topsBill 2.0.0 fully automates Medicare and Medicare-based fee schedule calculations in just minutes. The upgrade links multiple groups to the same fee schedule and interactively populates other carriers when posting allowables from explanation of benefits (EOBs). Another new capability of topsBill 2.0.0 is RVU reporting, which allows activity-based costing and provides more effective measurements of efficiency and reimbursement for e-MDs' clients. The system even has the ability to link visit times with RVUs and reimbursement rates.
The topsBill 2.0.0 solution will also provide a mail merge and label processing feature that will simplify the process of communicating with patients for marketing, health maintenance, illness prevention, follow-up or recall and collections purposes, allowing clinics to save standardized forms to their databases for more timely, professional communication with patients. Other enhancements, such as expanded claims error checking and on-screen HCFA previews, will work to reduce denials and simplify the insurance filing process.
"Today, physician practices are feeling increased pressure to control costs and manage data, in an effort to maintain profitability," continues Winn. "As a result, e-MDs is continually looking to add more functionality to our applications, while maintaining affordability. Our upgraded topsBill 2.0.0 solution, which saves time, improves collections, monitors patient accounts, and generates meaningful reports to help physicians manage their practice, is affordably priced, allowing many practices to see an immediate return on their investment."
About e-MDs
e-MDs provides an integrated suite of clinical and financial information management solutions for physician practices and groups. topsSuite -- and its individual modules topsChart, topsBill, and topsSchedule -- automates the three primary areas of a medical practice: scheduling, charting, and practice management. Together, they provide physicians with an easy-to-use, affordable and faster solution for managing clinical and financial patient information. e-MDs has developed its topsSuite family of products in its proprietary Austin, TX-based CyberClinic, validating the concept of the "paperless medical office" and its business advantages. For a free no-obligation demonstration of topsSuite solutions, or for more information, contact e-MDs toll-free at (888) 344-9836, or visit www.e-mds.com.
