• Using Netbook Computers Wirelessly with ChiroPulse365

Requirements for Wireless Use of ChiroPulse365:

• Wireless-N Mini Card (self installed w/ screwdriver, ~ $50)
  click here to see several samples at Amazon.com in a new window/tab
• Wireless-N Router or wireless Bridge/Access Point
  click here to see several samples of Bridges (to use with your existing router) at amazon.com in a new window/tab
• Windows 7 (any version)
• Windows XP (any version) SP2 or SP3
• Windows Vista (any version) SP1 or SP2

Wi-fi wireless roaming between treatment and other rooms
As people can wirelessly use their phones & view the web or fetch email, it is a nice goal to be able to wireless access your ChiroPulse data from anywhere in your office. We have tested and used wi-fi going back to Winter 2005 when we launched ChiroPulse Advanced v4 (replace by ChiroPulse365) using D-link 104mpbs and early Pre-N wifi setups.

Wi-fi using Wireless-N is a great tool for network PCs (ie. for the doctor) but does have a few areas of concern that you need to be aware of & work around by following these strict guidelines:

1. Reliability. Wired networks are 100% reliable & require no configuration. Wireless networks are less reliable obviously and are subject to interference, lost signals, poor reception and/or improper setup. Wireless is great for notes, scheduling & looking up patient data (i.e. used by the doctor). Wireless is not to be used for running invoices, reports or data-intensive tasks that take time to complete.
2. Security. Wireless networks WPA2 encryption are completely safe as its security has not been breached. Unsecure wireless or wifi using basic WEP encryption is easily breached. You must run WPA2 level encryption or better on your wireless router and all cards. This is business-level security that matches wired networking.
3. Ease of Setup & Maintenance – wi-fi networks require a new Wireless-N router (or you can simply piggyback a wireless-N access point) in addition to Wireless-N wifi cards for laptop computers. Wifi requires setting up WPA2 security, creating keys/passwords and doing the initial connection & permissions. Installing a wireless-N wi-fi card cards takes a screwdriver, popping out the old card, disconnecting the small wired antenna & inserting the new card. It is a quick & pretty easy do-it-yourself swap though. Some laptops (not netbooks) have express PC Cards which allow you to insert the new network card in the side like a large credit card that protrudes a little bit. We recommend the internal mini-PCI card since it takes up no space and is done once and never touched again.
4. Wireless-N 802.11N standard only – this is the latest, most robust & secure wifi standard above Wireless-G. Wireless-N is required and must be running at full bandwidth on all devices (notebook/netbooks & router/wifi-access point). Wireless-G and most internal wifi cards that come with less expensive computers are insufficient in regard to speed and security. Thankfully these Wireless-G cards can be easily replaced/upgraded by the user to Wireless-N. Note that the ChiroPulse hardware requirements apply to the Tablet PC also (XGA screen, 1GB ram, etc).
5. Never use wireless wi-fi to connect two desktop PCs. That is silly, costly and a waste of time and energy. Use wireless to connect a Notebook/Tablet/Netbook laptop to your wired network. You can mix wired PCs with a wireless notebook or two.

Happy Holidays! Team Pulse

From the patient’s Careplan you can select a careplan entry – for example “3 times weekly starting 11/1/2009 through 11/15/2009” – and quickly schedule multiple appointments for a patient directly to scheduler, while picking the preferred time/dates. This feature is useful for all practice types, from cash-only to personal injury since it allows rapid appointment entry & the quick printing of these appointments for the patient. It nicely integrates the clinical Careplans with the clerical Scheduler & visit posting.

You can block schedule the following Careplan entries: Daily, Daily AM/PM, Weekly. Other intervals can more easily be cloned. Click the careplan entry (ie. 10/01 Weekly entry selected below) then click the “Block Schedule” link to see the block schedule careplan overlay.

block schedule directly using careplan entries!

From the careplan you can see the “block scheduled” appointments and mass-delete them (all except kept appointments) if something has changed! You can also see which careplan entries were block scheduled or are eligible for block-scheduling.

careplan printout for the patient

Shown above is the improved careplan report that now features a list of future appointments for the patient. This can be printed directly from the Careplan editor or Scheduler to reinforce the care your patient will be receiving.

The allowed amount is the insurer’s contracted rate (for the doctor who performs the service). The difference between the contracted rate & your standard CPT fee is automated as a non-collectible payment entry in the ledger.

For example if a charge for a CPT is $75 & the fee schedule allowed amount is $50 when adding visits a $25 non-collectible payment will be posted to ledger automatically along with the visit/charges.

After you setup the allowed amount fee schedules for all codes for an insurer, select the fee schedule to be used for each doctor in your office for this insurer.

Up to three (3) fee schedules can be stored for each CPT. This allows doctors to have different scheduled fees. For example a DC might have one schedule, a therapist another & other doctor or therapist yet another if necessary. For simplicity start with schedule A & leave the others blank if not needed.

It is important to remember that most states legally require you to charge the same amount for services regardless of reimbursement method.  So the patient with or without insurance should be charged the same cost for a given CPT/service. You can use ledger entries to “write-off” or “contractual reduced rate” to reconcile the discounted rate given to insurers or patients from this standard service/cpt dollar amount.

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The “Fee Schedule in ChiroPulse365 totally automates contracted rates since the “non-collectible contracted rate” ledger items are added when posting charges/services.  In addition, the patient invoice clearly shows that the services were paid at a discounted rate to allow for better patient relations. For example, a patient would typically be less reluctant to complain about a co-payment or balance due when they see your rates & reimbursement was significantly reduced by their insurer.

The Scheduler is also integrated with the Patient Claim Wizard & Ledger. You can set your default appointment information for each patient, for each “claim”, in the Claim Wizard. This includes default charges, times, etc. Typical appointment information that can be collected in the scheduler includes treatment codes (CPT, Multi & User codes) and treating doctors. This can streamline data entry, saving time & reducing errors. The scheduled charges/services (CPT, Multi & User codes) will be posted to the Patient’s Ledger when you set the visit status to kept (from waiting or treating). From the ChiroPulse start page “MyOffice” click the top icon bar “View scheduler” to launch the scheduler window. The scheduler is self-contained in an independent window to allow for quick return to office & patient tasks not scheduler related.

Scheduler  Overview ~ what each button & clickable item does:  

dimmed choices until a patient is selected

• Top Pulldown menu – shown above the top menu can be navigated by mouse or keyboard. Use the ALT key to show the keyboard accelerators (the underlined letters that are pressed after ALT key to jump to the menu item directly) or hotkeys (ie. CTRL+K to mark the selected appointment as Kept & post to ledger). Note that some menu items might be dimmed (not selectable) until a specific patient is selected.  See the bottom photo up above.
  • Change Status – when a patient is selected in the scheduler you can use this to quickly change the status of the appointment. You can also use the keyboard hotkeys (click menu to see hotkeys). You typically change a status to “waiting” as a patient arrives, then “treating” when they are assigned to a room, then kept to post charges. Use no-show, canceled or rescheduled when needed. Never delete an appointment unless it was made by mistake.
    Reschedule is a cancellation with a replacement appointment. Use the reschedule menu to quickly set the reschedule date. Remember when “rescheduling” an appointment a new slot is inserted since the rescheduled slot is now available (that pending appointment is marked “rescheduled” to show the change of appointment time/date).
    

    New Reschedule menu addition to quickly reschedule from scheduler window.

  • Open Patients – when a patient is selected in the scheduler you can use this to jump to various patient related windows & features,including “find all future appointments” for this patient. Many hotkeys are available (some of which are used in many windows such as opening patient or claim wizard).
  • Visits/Payments/Walkout – has useful tools for ledger items and printing walkouts for patients.
  • Calendar is used to change days via keyboard without grabbing for the mouse
  • Open Patient’s Travelcard is enabled when a patient is selected. This quickly opens their travelcard via keyboard.
  • Document Viewer will open the document management system for the selected patient. If documents exist linked to the patient these will be visible, or you can quickly import/index documents from here.
  • Help brings up some help via the Member Center that relates to scheduling
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• Button bar (context sensitive) – the first icon/button is “to ChiroPulse” if no patient is selected or “to Patient” if a patient is selected. To Patient is handy since it takes you to PatientTab/Finder to work with the selected patient.
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• Print Daybook opens a print preview of the selected scheduler view ready to print or export
• Refresh page reloads the scheduler. This is useful if you step away from your desk & want to see if anyone using another ChiroPulse computer has updated the schedule.
• Set Vacation opens the scheduler override window where you can set vacations (days off) or alternate/temporary hours for any doctor or all doctors.
• Yearly View opens the yearly visual to see your days off, standard hours and days with alternate/temp hours. You can also import past appointments (when upgrading) from here and set vacations.
• Setup Hours is where you setup the standard, typical hours, slots, times, etc. for each doctor/clinician in your office. When setting up hours you should have the exact number of available slots desired for each doctor on the scheduler so that you can quickly double-click an open appointment “slot” to schedule a patient.
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• Open New Scheduler launches a new scheduler window. This is useful when you want to view a particular date range or certain parameters while keeping your main scheduler open to save time & clicks!
• Close All Schedulers exits all schedulers and returns you to the ChiroPulse365 main window.

• Today button – click to view all appointments for today. Click the arrow buttons to go forward/back one day or one week.
• Back/Forward arrows – jumps back/forward one day or week
• Date view calendar link (Apr 24, 2009 in example above) – click to open the pop-up Calendar to change the date to view appointments for

  

• Hide Slots X minutes or Earlier – hides all slots and intervals prior to the time shown. Useful for busy schedules or in the afternoon so you don’t see all the morning activity.
• Hide Unscheduled Slots – hides all open slots. Useful for busy schedules who jump around a lot and use the slot selection window to find open slots. Useful for the doctor to see only actual appointments. This is set as a computer-specific preference (also changed in Global Preferences — This PC)
• Set Views button – Allows you to set the appointment list options and configure which appointment status’s are visible. For example the front desk might want to see all unscheduled time slots whereas the doctor might only want to view “treating” and “waiting” appointments without open time slots.
• Views/Daybook dropbox – Select the appointment option parameter set to view. The daybook mode mimicks the typical printed daybook with open time slots visible to double-click & enter appointments.
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• Patient find dropbox & F3 button – Select the patient to view the appointments for, or select “all patients” to view all appointments scheduled for all patients.
• Doctors selection dropbox – Select the doctor to view the appointments for, or select “all doctors” to view all appointments scheduled for all doctors.
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• Edit selected appointment (or double-click on the selected appointment) opens up the appointment editor so you can make changes with the codes to post, edit the appointment note or change the status.
  
• New appointment is used when all slots are filled so you can no longer double-click an open slot to create a new appointment. You can preselect the doctor & time by selecting a slot for the doctor/time then clicking the new appointment button. For example if you click the 9:00/LGD slot then click “new appointment” a new slot will be ready to be inserted for 9:00 for dr LGD.
  
• Clone selected appointment lets you quickly clone an appointment to quickly enter many appointments for a patient. After pressing “Clone selected appointment” a  new Clone pop-up menu appears to allow you to directly clone with less window jumping!
  

  New Clone Button Menu for easier cloning direct from scheduler.

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• Launch Waiting Alert opens a small utility that checks for appointments marked “waiting”. Used on network ChiroPulse computers this is very useful so you can work on your computer and be notified with a small popup when a patient is ready & “waiting”
  

  

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The Appointment List shows the appointments for the selected day and all available slots (unless “hide open slots” is selected or “unscheduled intervals” are turned off). One appointment is shown per row/line so in this example above you can see three (3) appointments are visible with two (2) open slots (9:20am and 9:40am). For each appointment, details are provided including: time, patient name, Dr., status, note, and CPT code. Open slots are shown in the “daybook” mode.

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Right-click popup menu for more choices as well as add/delete selected slot, view CPT, view Copay and more options set per computer.You can see the estimated copay dollar value, the * asterisk, or hide copays and see an x instead (to signify they are hidden).

scheduler popup menu choices for setting copay view

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The Reassign Appointment List shows appointments which were previously scheduled but require rescheduling since the doctor/office has a vacation day or temporary hours. Double-click to view & reschedule these patients.
Edit & New buttons are used to edit the selected appointment or create a new appointment. Use the Clone button to duplicate the selected appointment. Cloned appointments will open the appointment editor with all the previous info (Dr., CPTs, etc.) so you can choose the new time and date.

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appointments that require immediate attention

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Scheduler related Preferred Options – new tab added named “For This PC” which shows all customizations available per individual ChiroPulse365 computer in your office. Most of the Preferred Options are set per office (shared between all users on a network), ChiroPulse365 also allows customization for each actual user’s computer in your office as well!

MyPC tab in Preferred Options to review settings.

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Scheduler Appointment Creation – Prompt which doctor to use when adding an appointment when the selected slot does not match the patient’s default treating doctor. You can quickly select either doctor, without interruption or further slot selection. Soon Global Preferences will be added to allow you customize the prompts & actions.

more prompts when entering patients

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Setup Scheduler & Doctor’s Office Hours

Use this to setup the standard & typical hours for each doctor in your office.

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Scheduler Auto Logic

Once an appointment is marked kept you will see prompts regarding the visit (such as expired claim or visit totals exceeded), possible capitations or other reminders. You will be prompted to save/post the charges to ledger as well as enter copayments, payments and/or print walkout receipts!

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Appointment Status – Recommended Usage

Each appointment has a status. Each new appointment is set to “pending”. From the Appointment status combo box select the
appropriate status from the following choices if necessary. Note that the use of the pop-up menu (mouse button 2) from the
Scheduler page provides a shortcut to quickly change the status. Status types:

• Kept - Select when the appointment is kept, after services are rendered. Note – This applies any CPTs to the patient transaction ledger.
• Waiting - Select to put the patient in the “waiting list” queue. This will provide for a method of viewing patients who are awaiting treatment.
• No show – Select when the patient did not keep their appointment or reschedule another appointment.
• Cancellation - Select when the patient cancels the appointment but did not reschedule the appointment.
• Rescheduled - Select to mark the appointment as rescheduled and open the appointment edit window to enter the rescheduled appointment.

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Adding & Deleting Codes/charges when saving an appointment

Each appointment can have codes attached that will be posted to the ledger when the appointment is marked “kept”. When scheduling a new appointment the patients default codes (for their latest claim set in claim wizard page-1) are inserted into the pending appointment.

If you are unsure which treatments were done or which codes will be posted to the ledger simply keep the appointment marked “treating“. This allows you to quickly visualize any actual patient treatments that need to be marked kept & posted later on or the following day.

When editing an appointment you can quickly change, add, delete or reorder codes for an appointment.

• Press the [Code] button to toggle the sort order between Code number and description
• From the Code dropbox select each Code to be performed during the appointment.
  Note – To select a CPT from the combo box you must first select CPT radiobutton. You can enter several CPTs if
  necessary. Likewise, to select a Multi code, select the Multi radiobutton.
• View the list of Codes to be performed during the appointment and use Delete to remove Codes

New Clone Button Menu for easier cloning direct from scheduler.

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Reschedule improvements for quicker, easier reschedules, including for same-day. New menu items are added (top pulldown or right-click popup) to “Reschedule for this day (CTRL-R hotkey)” which makes for easier rescheduling an appointment for the same day… 3 clicks. In addition a Reschedule submenu now appears on scheduler (top & right-click) to reschedule for days of the week or next week plus a mode to quickly choose a reschedule time/day/slot. Remember when “rescheduling” and appointment a new slot is inserted since the rescheduled slot is now available.

New Reschedule menu addition to quickly reschedule from scheduler window.

Ledger instant refund is quick & easy.

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Billing Wizard “Bill Many Patients” & “Patient Statements” wizard modes now have the ability to filter out & exclude any patient statements (not HCFA) with patient balances of $0.00 or patients with credit.

Bill Many new filter to exclude $0.00 balances

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Billing Wizard “Bill all unpaid balances” & “Reinvoice unpaid invoices” now have several more more filters:

• “Do not include Unprocessed” option – this is very useful for offices that do not want to generate patient invoices until the insurance invoice is submitted first. Using this option charges with statuses with “invoiced primary” will be included but new visits yet processed to the insurer or via electronic claims will not.
• Selection box to further limit printouts by patient class, billing class, invoice class & most other options from “Bill Many”

More filters for "bill all unpaid patient balances" & "reinvoice unpaid". Do not include "unprocessed" is very useful for those wanting to always invoice insurers first.

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Task Manager item for “Patients with Credit” to quickly find all patients with credit in your office. You can double-click into Ledger directly from Task Manager.

Task Manager patient entry to find patients with credits

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Other additions/changes:

• NYWC “Doctor Name” in C4.0 box C.1 & C4.2 B1 now reads “Last, First, initial” instead of “First Last”.
• NYWC when printing the C4 invoice directly from the NYWC window the appropriate invoice is preselected in step-3 in Billing Wizard.

There is no need for Dell resellers to inventory/stock Dell computers. Here are three main reasons: #1 Dell sells their equipment to Vendors/Resellers at about the same price as they do to customers direct on the dell.com website. Some large box store like Best Buy use Dell to lure customers into their store to look & see… and hopefully purchase a movie, DVD, software or accessory.  #2 Dell changes PCs, configurations & prices almost daily. We would never want to be selling out-dated computers we’re stuck with. #3. Dell ships direct to customer, very quickly if not immediately. Direct shipping means lowered costs to you.

We can service your office when looking for new computers &  save you money.     Even when buying just ONE computer. This is because we have more tools at our disposal to find “discounts” and “special purchase” items from Dell, including some that are sometimes reserved for Dell Partners. In addition we regularly scour the various Dell sites (Home, Office, Small Business), including Dell Outlet for fully warrantied like-new Dell Certified Refurbished PCs, Dell Certified Scratch & Dent PCs & Dell Certified New Order Canceled PC deals. All of these come with the full Dell factory warranty (& dell extended warranty options) which provides you with support & comfort while putting cash back in your pocket.

after choosing a model you must select a submodel

When ordering yourself on Dell.com you must create an account then wade through 8-10 pages and hundreds of options with temptations to overspend on items which you have no idea what they are. $20 “upgrade” here, $”50 whats-this-thingy” here…. these tack ons dramatically increase your cost while providing no benefit to your office!  WE LET YOU AVOID ALL OF THAT. You’ll never get the version of windows or 3 year “anti-virus subscription” that is worthless.

Pulse Software technicians know EXACTLY what laptop & desktop computer specs to purchase – and not to purchase – which keep prices DOWN. We buy the right computer at the right price to fit your exact needs We make the better choices – thinking ahead for you -ordering the PCs with gigabit (faster) networking & 3 year onsite warranties as opposed to the “advertised web specials” with 180-day warrantywith mail in service  and no CD/DVD drive

Pulse Software offers per a diem computer (desktop, laptop, netbook, etc.) finding service at a nominal charge of  only $35 per computer. All you need to do is shop around and determine what you want to spend and no more. Download our printable PDF order form – click here & let us find you a better deal, for less than you though possible. Direct shipped from Dell with full warranty (& extended warranty options). With Dell you can add or extend warranties at any time later!

Printable Order Form Faxback form click here to download faxback order form.

Unfortunately many vendors today are using fear, uncertainty & scare tactics on our fellow Chiropractors. As if doctors don’t face enough obstacles to patient care they now need to fend off bully tactics from unscrupulous software vendors. The vendors often leave out facts & specifics, for example that the HITECH stimulus relates only to Medicare/Medicaid and would begin perhaps in 2011 at the earliest, no time soon.

You’re reading the emails, promotion & print ads that sound so great you almost want to believe them. They read like the email from your “long lost relative who left you millions” that you can collect once you “send your bank account info, social security info & all of your personal data”, plus a “small $10,000 payment to cover legal fees to gain your inheritance”. Here is a sample …

“Stimulus Plan rewards over $40,000 to doctors using EMR software!”

“Start reaping the benefits of the Economic Stimulus Plan now!”

“Money Flying”

“Implement now once the $19.2 billion in stimulus dollars is paid out, there will be no more!”

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Facts about EMR Electronic Medical Records / EHR Electronic Health Records  

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed on February 17, 2009 (in Title XIII – click here) establishes a process for the development of standards to allow for nationwide electronic exchange of information between doctors, hospitals, patients, carriers, government offices, etc. to be set by the end of 2009.

The standards program will be conducted through the newly established Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology within the Department of Health and Human Services. This certification organization is NOT YET DEFINED (as of May 19, 2009) , however they are striving to formalize the standards & certification process by December 31, 2009.

Certification is said to focus on two main areas, with an obvious room for expansion on this young and ambitious program:

1. Collection of Patient Documentation (History, Soaps, Careplan, Reports, Imaging, etc.)
2. Patient Management & Referral (medical necessity, outcome, physician order/prescriptions, data capture & exchange with other healthcare providers/systems)

In other words, everything you can do in ChiroPulse365 today is what this upcoming certification committee will wrap up into a nice “certification program”.

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Hitech Act Stimulus Package Recap

• Applies only to Medicare & Medicaid providers. Has nothing to do with any other insurance carriers.
• As of May 18, 2009 there is no certification process available.
  
• Any vendor claiming to be certified is spreading misinformation.
  
• Goal of Nov/Dec 2009 is set for the certification process to be established.
• Possible payout at the earliest date of 2011 for 5 years on diminishing scale for Medicare providers ($18,000 in year 1, $12,000 in year 2, $8,000 in year 3, $4000 in year4, $2000 in year 5) & possibly Medicaid providers (30% of revenue from Medicaid) who show “meaningful use” of Electronic Health Records
  
• Possible Medicare fee schedule lowering in 2016 for healthcare providers not yet implementing EHR
• Hitech Act Chilmark Research summary & possible reimbursement schedule – click here
  

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How will ChiroPulse365 use Electronic Health Records & provide for the Stimulus Plan benefits?

ChiroPulse365 database engine runs on Microsoft SQL Server which has the best developer support in the industry. This allows us to take your data to other places as needed (assuming those places are agreed upon & standardized in such an ambitious manner).

ChiroPulse has offered “Electronic Health Records” since it’s debut in 1996. ChiroPulse featured NPI support months before it was mandated. Pulse Software will monitor the certification process so that  ChiroPulse can be submitted for certification once such standards are available.

You can see a decent EHR overview at wikipedia that is non-biased and without vendor spin or promotion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_health_record

If you are getting a hard-sell on EHR check your back pockets as a con-man is nearby.

When talking to chiropractic offices it really amazes us how often the staff prints things from ChiroPulse that is really doesn’t need to be.  Print today’s schedule, print the HCFA that you sent electronically, print a patient invoice you sent, print a SOAP, etc.  Sure some things need printing (I.e. a patient walkout receipt they ask for) but much of what the average office prints is stuffed into a patient folders to take up space & quite often do nothing but collect dust.

ChiroPulse365 has a full “what you see is what you get” print preview. It can export to many computer electronic file formats and multi-page PDF portable document file. We’d like to urge your office to really start to consider the actual need of a paper printout before sending the preview to the printer.

While each of your offices has unique needs & requirements, we have a vested interest to have your patient data instantly retrievable, organized & reproducible for medical, legal & accounting purposes. 

It is more useful, economical & less hurtful to the environment to backup your ChiroPulse365 data & keep some backups for historical purposes than it does to stuff patient files with printouts of the same data.

It is important to remember that all of the information in ChiroPulse can be extracted at any time after it is entered. If you previously printed it (& faxed/mailed it) or previewed it on screen it can be viewed again later right from ChiroPulse. If you regularly fax from your office, you should consider a multi-function printer where you can “print” directly to fax without using any paper. Likewise many offices use online fax sending services such as myfax.com or efax.com services which can eliminate phone lines & costs.

The SOAP Notes & Ledger reports you sent to an attorney… it’s all in your database ready to reprint any time. The invoice you sent to a patient for the 5th time… that is in Billing Invoice Log ready to print an exact copy or regenerate a new invoice with updated payments or interest.

Shown below is the Reporting System. In this example the “Accounting (Ledger)” report category is selected in 1 (left box). The actual report selected to print is highlighted in 2 (middle box). Note that in 3. (right box) Visits is highlighted as we limited visit date by filtering only for 5/1/2009. Simply double-click on an filter to set a value to limit what data will be printed. In this example when adding the “visits” filter the line item & global payments were filtered as well since this is a “subpayment” report that shows all transactions for the visit date.

print report system allows filtering to view only what data you want

When you press the Print button you will see a print preview window where you can read the printout onscreen without sending it to the printer. Use the top icon bar to print, export, refresh, turn pages (the document below is on page  1 of 2) & zoom in and out.

print preview window with top button bar to export & more.

Export with the 2nd icon (envelope with down arrow). Below you see the initial export selection. You can save to “disk” as a file or send the report to a program, fax, email (MAPI), etc.

export the report

Shown below is the expanded format type selection. There are several choices so experiment with whatever format works best for your needs.

select from several file types. Rich Text is useful for formatted word processing.

We’ll post more info on sending printouts directly to email attachments in the near future. ChiroPulse365 will also soon be featuring email & text message capability to email patient invoices, send appointment notices to the doctor or patent for example.

ChiroPulse can work with almost any clearinghouse that supports industry standard formats. Listed below are a few vendors that have great customer feedback and have been compatible with ChiroPulse for years. Each clearinghouse has various options, pricing and value added services which should be considered against strictly the advertised “price”. The ability to get you quickly up and running, with correct EDI output for peculiar settings required by local insurers is important too!

MDOn-Line
www.mdon-line.com
6 Campus Drive, Parsippany, NJ 07054
Toll Free: 888-499-5465 ext 165
Fax: 973-734-9910
www.mdon-line.com

MD On-Line provides a suite of electronic tools and services for claims transactions. Products work in conjunction with ChiroPulse software.  Toll free Technical and Customer Support are provided to all customers. Pricing is extremely competitive
and discounts are offered to members of the American Chiropractic Association. Call or contact them via the web to learn more.

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Electronic Claims Output from ChiroPulse

Plain Text (“HCFA-1500 Print Image”) EDI Text file to submit to any ECS service accepting standard “HCFA-1500 Print Images” for submission.

ANSI-837 Direct to submit ANSI formatted files direct to carriers. This is especially useful for those with “pay per use” clearinghouses that charge per carrier. You can submit ANSI direct to a certain carrier that allows it to keep costs down.

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Other Clearinghouses With Good Feedback

EClaims, Inc.
www.eclaims.com
888-576-0800
9393 Second Avenue, Kearney, NE 68847
Fax: 909-869-1047