Contact:
Bailey Nichols, president, MediData.med, Inc.
214-893-3772
Date: August 22, 2007
MediData’s New Post Back Application Safely Automates
Medicaid Eligibility Monitoring in Hospital Accounting Systems
Data service safely eliminates expensive and error-prone manual data entry of Medicaid information in the patient accounts record of major billing applications
Dallas, TX -- MediData.med, Inc., today introduced MediData Post Back, a sophisticated data service that eliminates manual data input of Medicaid eligibility information into hospital patient accounting systems. Post Back applies user-defined business rules to update Medicaid information and identify the circumstances that automatically create a Medicaid bill within a billing system.
Post Back eliminates staff time required for manual input of data that leads to Medicaid billing. It also creates consistent data quality, resulting in fewer errors and time-consuming corrections. A 100% audit trail documents all actions for all data entered and each Medicaid bill generated, providing a permanent electronic record for every case processed.
Post Back uses MediData’s Virtual Assistant™ technology that reads data from a Graphic User Interface (GUI) screen on any application program, navigates through that program, and populates that data onto the screens of the same program or another application program.
“Post Back’s technology uses existing screens in exactly the same way a data entry person uses them, except that the process is automated. The service doesn’t skip steps or make data entry errors that humans might, thus it improves the quality of information in the system. As a result, Post Back eliminates manual errors that can cause Medicaid payments to be delayed or denied” says Bailey Nichols, president, MediData.med.
“This is a major step forward in reducing the cost of Medicaid patient billing,” Nichols said.“Post Back allows health care providers to automatically update Medicaid information without altering or affecting their patient accounting system in any way. We are not aware of any other provider of Medicaid eligibility information that offers this service.
MediData Post Back has been designed to interface with major billing systems, such as Siemens, McKesson, and Cerner. The data source for Post Back updating is the daily report from MediData’s Medicaid Revenue Recovery Service, which verifies patient enrollment in state Medicaid programs.
MediData.med, Inc. is a Dallas-based leader in innovative data utilization services for healthcare institutions that need to solve persistent data problems. MediData improves the integrity and usability of data and enhances process flexibility. MediData services leverage current technology investments, reduce the total cost of technology ownership, meet all HIPAA requirements and provide a 100% audit trail of user actions.
For more information visit www.medidatamed.com.