Kelsey-Seybold Clinic Selects Ingenious Med for Practice Management Solution
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ATLANTA, Nov. 28 -- Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, based in Houston, Texas, has selected Ingenious Med's practice management application, IM Practice Manager(TM), to automate its inpatient charge capture and manage its hospital practices. Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, a 330 doctor multi-specialty group, has already implemented the solution for their hospitalist and pulmonary divisions. Their future plans include continued expansion of Ingenious Med's application in 2008 into such specialty groups as pediatrics, neurology, oncology, gastroenterology, and endocrinology. The goal of each of these divisions is to effectively manage their inpatient practices by accurately collecting billing data and properly submitting required codes in a timely manner.
"The Ingenious Med system is easy to use and ideal for big groups," commented Dr. Tony Lin, Chief of Internal Medicine at Kelsey-Seybold, and Associate Medical Director of Hospital Services. "We started out with a four month pilot and then surveyed our physicians. Everyone liked it ... even the non-computer-savvy physicians found it easy to use."
IM Practice Manager(TM) is an Internet-based rounding platform that enables inpatient physicians to capture charges, improve coding, and communicate digitally with their peers and attending physicians. In addition, the program aggregates practice data separately from the hospital information system, so individual hospitalist and total department performance can be accurately evaluated.
"The physicians like that it saves them so much time. Most physicians surveyed said that it saved them at least 30 minutes per day compared to previous paper billing .... and they can submit their bills from home," said Lin. Aside from being pleased with the application, physicians are also coding more accurately. Lin states "The total collections went up, but this is not due to inflated charges ... Charges are no longer being lost." Because of IM Practice Manager(TM), missed charges are now being identified and incorrect coding can be corrected easily.
Kelsey-Seybold has seen dramatic improvements in their billing department. "Before Ingenious Med, only 50% of our bills were being sent within 10 days of encounter. After Ingenious Med, 100% of our bills are being sent out within 6 days," states Lin. "The billers simply love it. It saves them a tremendous amount of time; bills are significantly more accurate and the data is clean." IM Practice Manager(TM) has enabled Kelsey-Seybold to centralize their billing. Sixty physicians rounding at 18 different sites now submit their charges electronically to a single back office location staffed by only four billers.
"We're very pleased to have Kelsey-Seybold Clinic as a client," said Dr. Steve Liu, CEO of Ingenious Med. "Their internal medicine physicians are rounding in multiple specialties and multiple locations, and Ingenious Med provides them with the tools that they need to optimize practice performance and measure their value."
About Kelsey-Seybold
Kelsey-Seybold Clinic combines the experience and expertise of more than 300 physicians providing primary care and specialty care at 18 clinic locations throughout Houston. Kelsey-Seybold Clinic cares for over 300,000 patients, including members of managed care plans, employer groups and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). For more information please visit www.kelsey-seybold.com or call (713) 442-0427.
About Ingenious Med
Ingenious Med was founded in 1999 by a group of practicing hospitalist leaders and has a customer base comprising thousands of active licenses in over 400 facilities across the U.S. Ingenious Med is the only provider in the nation exclusively devoted to inpatient mobile practice management solutions. The company's largest market is hospitalists; however, other specialty groups have increasingly been choosing Ingenious Med as their practice management solution. For more information on Ingenious Med, visit www.ingeniousmed.com or call (404)-815-0862.
Source: Ingenious Med
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