Charge Capture

Improve revenue with electronic charge capture 

PatientKeeper Charge Capture provides an automated billing workflow that easily fits a clinicians work style.

• Supported on all devices – PCs, laptops, desktops, PDAs, and Smartphones
• Allows physicians to apply real-time code edits
• Automatically checks for common coding errors
• See real time alerts for accurate charge entry
• Communicate with billing staff through messaging

Capturing charges is important to the financial well-being of any healthcare system. PatientKeeper Charge Capture increases revenue and cash flow through more efficient charge capture and smarter coding.

Proven physician adoption

PatientKeeper Charge Capture is the proven solution most widely adopted by physicians in the market today. Why?

• Flexible access on both PCs with a Web browser or mobile devices
• Complete and accurate patient list
• Workflows by specialty department that are automated
• Configurable to the user level with code alerts that only fire to physicians that need them
• Administrative Web-based holding bin allows billing staff to easily clean charges before sending to billing system

Proven benefits:

• Efficient physician rounding -

  For both inpatient or outpatient settings, physicians’ have an updated patient list, up-to-date patient location, and schedule — directly from a hospital census system and/or appointment-scheduling system.

• Eliminate Lost Charges –

  Electronic charge capture eliminates paper inefficiency to ensure that every charge gets submitted – increasing practice revenue.

• Reduce Charge Lag –

  With an automated billing process from point of care to code scrubbing, PatientKeeper Charge Capture dramatically reduces time to bill submission to just hours on average

• Eliminate Rework –

  By getting charges right the first time, dramatically reduces billing questions

• Improve Coding Compliance –

  Physicians easily apply real-time code edits, check for common coding errors and see alerts at the time of charge entry. Identifies potential charge opportunity and reduces defensive “down-coding.”

• Generate a Proven ROI –

  By capturing all charges, coding accurately and quickly submitting them, PatientKeeper customers realize a substantial and rapid ROI.

• Pay for Performance -

  With PatientKeeper P4P, PQRI measures can be captured quickly within charge capture workflow for CMS bonus opportunity

• Operational oversight -

  PatientKeeper Analytics offers easy reporting on RVUs, peer and benchmark comparisons, referring physician volume and more.

Platform you can build on

PatientKeeper Charge Capture is a core application in the PatientKeeper Financial Suite of applications that allows you to automate billing workflow – without replacing your existing IT systems. Built on an extensible platform, Charge Capture can be easily combined with other PatientKeeper applications such as Clinical Results,  ePrescribing, Sign-Out, and eSignature to provide a complete workflow tool for clinicians.