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| INTEGRIS Health Selects Allscripts Care Management for Its 13 Hospitals |
Oklahoma's Largest Locally Owned Healthcare Organization Expands Web-based Care Management Solution System-wide, Prepares for Medicare RAC Audits (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081013/AQM041LOGO) "Allscripts has proven to be an exceptional partner for INTEGRIS,
delivering significant savings in the form of reduced claims denials and
helping us to better manage our patients' length of stays with a care
management application that's virtually trouble free," said Allscripts Discharge Planning and Utilization Management are key elements of the company's Care Management solution, which is used by more than 700 hospitals nationwide. Allscripts Care Management is a Web-based "software as a service" (SaaS) solution that can be deployed quickly and efficiently with minimal IT support. It automates and streamlines the entire care management process in hospitals, from admission through discharge. The result: increased productivity, improved patient throughput, lower claims denials and better health outcomes. INTEGRIS plans to share patient information from Allscripts Utilization
Management with its numerous home care agencies to ensure providers have all
the information they need to deliver appropriate care," said "INTEGRIS is committed to ensuring continuity of care for all of our patients, no matter what care setting they're in, and Allscripts is uniquely able to help us deliver on that promise thanks to their presence in a wide range of care settings," said Caram. "Automating the care management process across all our facilities will also help us standardize and better manage our denials and appeals process, discharge planning, and prepare for the upcoming Medicare RAC audits." The Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program of the federal Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) was created to identify and correct
overpayments to healthcare providers. The RAC audits will become a permanent
fixture in all 50 states on "The implementation of healthcare information technology within hospital care management departments holds great promise for improving care while delivering cost savings for hospitals in these difficult economic times," said Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts. "We're delighted that INTEGRIS has decided to expand our partnership across their network to not only improve care management processes but also create a seamless transition to their post-acute care facilities, which provide the next level of care for so many patients." Allscripts Utilization Management streamlines the utilization management process by electronically capturing critical patient data and guiding case managers in securing authorization and payment of care from insurers. The solution also creates an effective denial management program to track claim denials and improve an organization's success rate with appeals. Allscripts Discharge Planning automates the process of referring discharged patients to post-acute facilities, eliminating the time-consuming and costly process of case managers manually phoning and faxing to secure post-acute care services, one provider at a time. Case managers send a detailed electronic referral to selected locations across the Allscripts network of 90,000 post-acute providers, and interested facilities reply, often within minutes. About About Allscripts Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX) uses innovation technology to bring health to
healthcare. More than 150,000 physicians, 700 hospitals and nearly 7,000 post-
acute and homecare organizations utilize Allscripts to improve the health of
their patients and their bottom line. The company's award-winning solutions
include electronic health records, electronic prescribing, revenue cycle
management, practice management, document management, medication services,
hospital care management, emergency department information systems and
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