Practice Development Strategies Expedites Healthcare Claim Processing and Accelerates Cash Flow for its Clients with InstaMed
Published: 2010-03-10 21:07:27By: InstaMed | February 17, 2010
SAN DIEGO, Calif. & PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - (Business Wire) Practice Development Strategies (PDS) provides medical billing, consulting and practice management services to over 200 medical practices across the country. The company continually seeks ways to reduce claim rejections and accelerate cash flow for its clients. PDS has partnered with InstaMed to deploy web-based clearinghouse and payment solutions that increase and accelerate patient and payer payments for its clients, while reducing the administrative costs to collect payments.
Batch eligibility is one of InstaMed’s clearinghouse solutions that PDS has successfully
deployed. This solution allows both PDS and its clients to verify
patient eligibility prior to a scheduled appointment, thereby
streamlining the check-in/registration process and saving PDS and its
clients over 40 hours a month. InstaMed’s solution displays the results
of eligibility inquiries to PDS and to its clients’ front desk staff,
enabling the proactive management of ineligible or high deductible
patients at the point of service. The implementation of batch
eligibility has resulted in an 80% reduction in claim rejections
related to ineligible patients, which has reduced accounts receivable
and accelerated cash flow for PDS and its clients.
“After looking at our options, InstaMed was the clear partner of choice because of its many healthcare and payment solutions on a single platform that are flexible and tailored to meet the needs
of a large billing service like ours,” stated Chris Burns, President of
Practice Development Strategies. “InstaMed allows us to provide our
clients with a unique set of solutions that resolve many of the
healthcare revenue cycle problems facing providers and patients today.”
Bill Marvin, President and CEO of InstaMed stated, “We are thrilled
with the results that PDS has delivered to its clients. InstaMed is
committed and focused on enabling PDS to simplify the entire healthcare
revenue cycle, improve client satisfaction and ultimately get paid.”
About Practice Development Strategies
For over 20 years, PDS has been providing medical billing, consulting
and practice management services to physicians and medical groups. PDS
strives to provide its clients with straightforward solutions to
complex problems utilizing a simple but effective business philosophy:
Commitment to your success is the key to our success. Our consultants
recognize that a solution that works for one practice may not
necessarily work for another. We look beyond the symptoms of a problem
to identify its underlying causes and then work side-by-side with your
management staff to implement a solution tailored to meet your specific
needs. By combining straight talk with years of practical experience we
can achieve results that maximize the performance of your practice.
Please visit PDS on the web at www.pdsmedical.com.
About InstaMed
InstaMed is the industry leading healthcare payments network and platform.
InstaMed’s mission is to transform the healthcare payment process for
healthcare Providers, Payers and Patients so their payment experience
is simple, convenient, reliable and secure. InstaMed processes all of
the healthcare and payment transactions in the healthcare revenue cycle
and offers patent pending, integrated healthcare and payment
transactions that accelerate the healthcare payment process and reduce
the administrative costs to all parties. Through its channel partner
relationships, InstaMed currently supports the healthcare payment
processing needs of all types of providers, from solo practitioners to
billion dollar health systems; and hundreds of healthcare payers of all
sizes. InstaMed is registered with Visa and MasterCard and is certified
as a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS) Level One
Service Provider. InstaMed is also fully accredited by the Electronic
Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) as a healthcare
clearinghouse. Visit InstaMed on the web at www.instamed.com.
Jillian Longpre, InstaMed Public Relations
(215) 789-3685
jillian.longpre@instamed.com
or
Chris Burns, President of Practice Development Strategies
(619) 757-2200
chris@pdsmedical.com
