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The Tips & Tricks blog is a valuable resource, featuring HCIM’s expert consultants’ operational workflow tips, 3rd party product reviews, industry best practices, etc. In addition, HCIM will post tips, case studies, and interviews on how to take advantage of HCIM’s products and scenarios, as well as the scenarios of Facets®, QNXT™, and EZ-CAP®.
Subscribe to the Tips & Tricks BlogBy G. Merica on August 25, 2010
The BROKERit product from AnyDoc Software is normally included with the base ScanClaims software suite when purchased with scanning and OCR for AnyDoc. This is a very powerful tool to search for archived documents that are properly indexed using either verified Optical Character Recognition (OCR), customized Key From Image (KFI) screens, or when linked to [...]
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By T. Streeter on July 29, 2010
Microsoft Windows 7, released in October 2009, was released as a much improved operating system over Vista and a worthy replacement for Windows XP. Features include much faster booting and shutdown, faster operation, improved compatibility with Windows XP applications, and several user interface improvements [...]
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By E. DeNaro on June 24, 2010
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 recently arrived on the scene as an upgrade to SQL Server® 2008, which was originally released in August 2008. For those running on SQL Server® 2000/2005, now may be a good time to consider upgrading to the latest version.
One of the many new features introduced in 2008 that would be [...]
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By J. Hall on June 1, 2010
Do members of your team have to print everything to avoid getting headaches from reading off their monitor? Here are a few simple ideas to reduce headaches, improve efficiency, and cut back on printing costs.
20-20-20 Rule
Every 20 minutes, look away from your screen at an object roughly 20 feet away, and keep your eyes there [...]
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By T. Streeter on May 26, 2010
HCIM’s Appeals Manager™ application is designed to automate all of the letter generation and tracking requirements for California’s AB1455 appeals legislation and Provider Dispute Resolution (PDR) processing, conforming to ICE requirements. Appeals Manager provides the automated functionality to download claim and provider information from the organization’s core claims system, to be used in the generation [...]
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By J. Hall on May 18, 2010
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is expected to save between $5,000 and $10,000 every year by changing their default e-mail font. Read more >>
Switch your Font
Research has found that switching from Arial to Century Gothic for printing will result in a 31% ink savings. How much could you save by switching the font on reports [...]
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By G. Merica on April 29, 2010
SymKey® for EZ-CAP® versions 1.20 and later include a built-in Batch Processing module that opens up the power of the SymKey® processing engine by allowing users to create their own scenario actions that can directly update nearly any field within an EZ-CAP® claim.
Many clients have unique provider contracts in which the specific pricing either is [...]
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By G. Merica on April 21, 2010
SymKey® for EZ-CAP® versions 1.20 and later include built-in productivity reports for both Professional and Hospital claims. These reports can summarize all batches within any given historical month or year or current month or year for either all databases or specific databases. This is an excellent way to validate that you are realizing SymKey’s full [...]
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By J. Williams on February 26, 2010
The standard scenarios in the Professional and Hospital Claims modules are perfect for repeating the same action and values again and again over a large number of claims. For example, if you have 500 claims with Provider ABC and need to change them to Provider XYZ, this can be done very simply and very quickly. But what if you [...]
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