New Patient Check List

When scheduling a patient for their first visit to your practice, you should advise them of what they need to bring to help ensure a smooth registration process and to assist your physician in making that first visit as thorough as possible.

Follow this check list as a guide:

Picture identification and current insurance card(s)

Hint: Once provided with this information, you need to verify insurance coverage and benefits. This is the optimum time to collect copayments from the patient.

Contact information for emergency contact and/or healthcare surrogate

Hint: Make sure the patient indicates the name(s) of any authorized persons on your HIPAA notification form.

Contact information for all current healthcare providers

Hint: Please have the patient add to the HIPAA form, the names of any physicians they would like your physician to communicate with or share their medical records.

Copies of any applicable medical records and recent diagnostic testing results

Hint: If you are handed records that are the patient’s only copy, make your own copy and return the “originals” to the patient. They may need them for another provider. X-rays or radiology “films” stored on computer discs, should be logged in the patient’s record if they are left behind after the visit.

Complete list of current medications, both prescription and over the counter.

Hint: Adding the pharmacy name and phone/fax number into the patient chart facilitates issuing any required prescriptions.

Revenue Cycle Management: Accomplished.

START BILLING BETTER WITH SHAVARA

Revenue Cycle Management: Accomplished.

START BILLING BETTER WITH SHAVARA

by Shavara

Shavara has the accumulated 'experience capital', the market know-how, the intricacies of coding, billing and connectivity that we have 'learned'. It is the basis of the work we do in Catalysis - Shavara's Professional Services Engagements.

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Revenue Cycle Management: solved.

What is Catalysis?

To "catalyze" is to rapidly advance by applying powerful tools and industry expertise. Catalysis becomes the process to gain access to the power, apply it to solve gaps and vulnerabilities - then rapidly advance. Shavara possesses the tools to apply Catalysis via collaborative engagements. Our infinite targets are the enterprise organizations: Hospitals, clearinghouse processors, Insurance companies (payers), and large physician practices, peppered throughout the Healthcare system that all share equally the challenges, pitfalls, inefficiencies, ineffectiveness, and the deliberate speed-bumps placed there by bureaucrats to slow down the revenue cycle.

What are the costs of these speed-bumps to the Healthcare system? The costs are in the billions.

Inefficiencies / ineffectiveness / inaccuracies in coding and billing mean:

a higher cost of money due to extended A/Rs
a higher cost of operating due to the number of additional staff required to research and chase down A/Rs
a decline in the quality and calibre of care - care outcomes due to the necessity of placing so much cost on the administrative and operational side of the equation

Therefore, solving this eliminates and holds the potential to improve organizational effectiveness, reduce the cost of healthcare and improve healthcare outcomes.

So, who is Shavara? What is that old lamp on the corner of the desk?

That lamp holds wisdom. The cumulative potential of that wisdom holds the potential to dramatically impact operational effectiveness and improve healthcare outcomes.

For Information on Catalysis contact Shavara's Services Division