“In choosing a pro bono client, we think it’s important to partner with an organization that is a good strategic fit in terms of their ability to engage with us to drive immediate savings to their bottom line,” said Scott Drobes, managing partner, Third Law Sourcing. “We selected WellStar because of its commitment to serving our community, as well as for its focus on strategic sourcing as a tool for maintaining a financially sound organization.”

Headquartered in Marietta, Georgia, WellStar Health System includes five acute care hospitals, five urgent care centers, 14 imaging centers and more than 100 medical group offices. WellStar Health System was named 2011 Supply Chain Department of the Year by Healthcare Purchasing News. WellStar serves a population of more than one million residents of metropolitan Atlanta.

“With reimbursements continuing to go down, provider organizations must pay attention to every spending category throughout the organization,” said Anthony Trupiano, vice president, supply chain, WellStar Health System. “When I joined WellStar in 2008, our initial focus was on clinical supply procurement. Now our focus has shifted to include non-supply items, and we look forward to working with Third Law Sourcing to identify every savings opportunity available.”

About Third Law Sourcing:
Third Law Sourcing LLC, based in Duluth, Ga., provides strategic sourcing and procurement consulting to services companies with $500 million to several billion dollars in annual revenue. By adhering to the rules of principled negotiation, Third Law Sourcing helps clients achieve bottom-line cost savings without disrupting operations or vendor relationships. Unlike traditional hourly fee consulting firms, Third Law Sourcing’s strategic sourcing and procurement consulting services are net cash flow positive because they are paid for through savings gained. In addition to cost-reduction initiatives, Third Law Sourcing provides sourcing services to organizations undertaking financial restructuring and merger/acquisition transactions. Third Law Sourcing, founded in 2005, is ranked on the 2011 Inc. 500 as one of America’s fastest-growing companies. For more information, visit www.3rdlaw.com .

About WellStar Health System:
The vision of WellStar Health System is to deliver world-class healthcare. WellStar, a not-for-profit health system, includes Cobb, Douglas, Kennestone, Paulding and Windy Hill hospitals; WellStar Medical Group; Urgent Care Centers; Health Place; Homecare; Hospice; Atherton Place; Paulding Nursing Center; and WellStar Foundation. For more information, call 770-956 STAR or visit www.wellstar.org .

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Since 2004, Revenue Cycle Inc.’s consultants have provided services to ACRO members including billing and coding seminars and webinars as well as continuous updates on legal and regulatory developments. In addition, Revenue Cycle Inc. conducts billing and coding seminars at the ACRO annual meeting and at ACRO-sponsored events nationwide.

ACRO has also chosen Revenue Cycle Inc. as its Preferred Provider for Practice Audits and recommends the firm to radiation oncologists for billing, coding and compliance audits as well as general practice information.

“At Revenue Cycle Inc. we take pride in delivering customized, leading-edge consultation to our oncology practice clients,” says DiGiaimo. “Being named the official billing and coding consultant to the American College of Radiation Oncology is an honor, and we look forward to our ongoing partnership.”

Founded in 2002 and based in Austin, Texas, Revenue Cycle Inc. (www.revenuecycleinc.com) is an oncology practice reimbursement consulting firm staffed by a team of diverse healthcare administration specialists.

Revenue Cycle Inc.’s team of experts includes leaders in the business of medical and radiation oncology with an advanced knowledge of human resource management, budgeting, program planning, oncology coding, compliance, training and education, oncology billing and oncology reimbursement, cancer center development, managed care and total operations for both freestanding and hospital Radiation and Medical Oncology clinics.

Revenue Cycle Inc. focuses on every aspect of an oncology practice with an emphasis on compliance, documentation, cancer center management, operational and staffing assessments, electronic medical record (EMR) implementation and department policy and procedure review and development.

The American College of Radiation Oncology’s mission is to strive to ensure the highest quality care for radiation therapy patients and promote success in the practice of radiation oncology through education, responsible socioeconomic advocacy and integration of science and technology into clinical practice. ACRO is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

For more information about Revenue Cycle Inc. visit http://revenuecycleinc.com . For information about ACRO visit http://acro.org .

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The NHIN is being developed to provide a secure, nationwide, interoperable health information infrastructure that will connect providers, consumers, and others involved in supporting health and healthcare. This critical part of the national health IT agenda will enable health information to follow the consumer, be available for clinical decision making, and support appropriate use of healthcare information beyond direct patient care so as to improve health.

An ideal use of the NHIN is the inclusion of medical images. According to the Government Accountability Office, 75% of all imaging procedures are performed outside of hospital setting where PACS systems are practically non-existent. Most of the smaller healthcare providers are simply not able to afford a PACS solution. Cost is the number one barrier to adopt health information technology. However, the NHIN requires a PACS system to share medical images. This implies that the majority medical images – 75% of them – will not be available. Therefore, it is clear that a cost effective imaging solution is paramount as it can provide PACS capabilities to those smaller healthcare providers that cannot currently afford it.

Heart IT has developed WebPAX®, a unique product that offers PACS capability via a “Software-as-a-Service” (SaaS) model through Web 2.0 technologies that allow any internet web browser to function as a medical imaging workstation without the need to install client software. This technology includes zoom/pan, movie controls distance measurements and regions of interest. Heart IT has proposed this technology as a SaaS PACS for smaller healthcare providers in order to enable them to share and access images via the NHIN. To this end, Heart IT received a $2.25 million NIH grant and is collaborating with Johns Hopkins Medicine and its member hospitals to develop a prototype of this technology and demonstrate its value and capabilities within NHIN.

About Heart IT:
Founded in 2000 and headquartered near North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park, Heart IT is a global leader in the medical image web enablement field. Their flagship product, WebPAX® is the first FDA approved zero foot-print medical image workstation. It provides web-based medical image management technology and services to health care systems, large hospitals and private clinics as well as drug and device companies sponsoring multi-center clinical trials. Worldwide, WebPAX® systems currently provide secure web browser access to over one billion medical images. For more information visit our website at www.heartit.com .

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Primary Care and Specialist Doctor’s offices, MRI centers, Ophthalmology centers, ENT centers, Cancer treatment centers, physical therapy centers and other growing companies in the medical industry face a large volume of data entry and labor-intensive consolidation and reporting when their business and financial data is stored in separate nonintegrated systems. The SCS interface between Sage ERP MAS 500 and Sage Intergy Practice Management was developed to allow system users to view and analyze financial data daily (while eliminating double data entry) by automatically feeding the general ledger entries directly from Sage Intergy’s billing system.

“This interface provides great efficiencies for health care organizations using Sage Intergy Practice Management and Sage ERP MAS 500,” said Sonia Ferrara, president of Southeast Computer Solutions. “Executives benefit from being able to act on performance data and address operational issues or revenue shortfalls sooner rather than later. For growing medical companies it allows them to quickly add new practices into the system and begin financial analysis on the new centers immediately.”

For more information on the SCS Intergy interface for Sage ERP MAS 500 and Sage Intergy Practice Management contact Southeast Computer Solutions at 305-556-4697.

About SCS:
Southeast Computer Solutions has been an IT consulting firm and Sage Authorized Reseller since 1985. Headquartered in Miami, Southeast has a presence in Mexico City and Buenos Aires and specializes in ERP solutions for distribution, warehouse automation, manufacturing and U.S. companies with divisions and subsidiaries in Latin America. With over 600 installations across the United State and in Latin America, Southeast Computer Solutions is the largest Sage Reseller in Miami and was ranked 75 on the 2011 VAR 100 list. For more information about how to raise your company’s performance, please contact us at: http://www.southeastcomputers.com .

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Architects and designers are praising the move to stylish, light weight, super thin LED TVs from Imagenable, LLC. Facilities striving for LEED certification gain great value from lowered power consumption and extended lamp life of LED televisions. At only 1.6 inch thick LED TVs can be decoratively placed and even with mount, be within ADA Accessibility Guides.

The LED TVs are mercury free, run cooler and use up half the energy of most standard LCD TV products. So, the benefits are lower costs, less waste and more efficient products. The earth, the manufacturer and the consumer benefit.

Only Imagenable, LLC offers to hospitals and dealers a complete offering of Energy Star 4.1 rated LED/LCD TVs for healthcare.

“Eventually, all healthcare TV providers will offer LED products, but for now, Imagenable is proud to lead the way with energy efficient, mercury free TV products for healthcare facilities,” says Richard Bray, Owner of Imagenable, LLC. “Hopefully, the days of the metallic looking LCD TV are numbered as hospitals will continue to move toward sleek, stylish and efficient LED TVs.”

About Imagenable, LLC:
Imagenable, LLC is a healthcare television services integrator and TV distributor. Imagenable products include: ETL Listed standard and LED televisions featuring SureControl technology from Paradigm Multimedia; Dialysis and Cancer care TV products with Internet apps including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo widgets, and cost effective educational and Hollywood Video on Demand.

More information: http://www.imagenable.com/contact.htm .

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“While Community Healthcare Organizations have seen additional sources of funding become available, with the funding comes more scrutiny and increased reporting requirements,” comments Jacqueline M. Tiso, founder and CEO of JMT Consulting Group. “The burden of this reporting can be automated through software solutions and the proper set up of the organization’s accounting system.”

JMT Consulting Group will present “Reporting Remedies for Community Healthcare Organizations” a complimentary online session that will cover simplifying the production of UDS reports, Section 330 Grant reports, ARRA and stimulus funds reports, as well as Medicaid and Medicare cost reports.

Those nonprofits interested in attending “Reporting Remedies for Community Healthcare Organizations” can register via the JMT Consulting Group website – http://www.jmtconsulting.com/resources/events/reporting-remedies-for-community-healthcare-organizations – and have a choice of attending either on March 17, 2011 or April 21, 2011.

About JMT Consulting Group:
JMT Consulting Group is a leading national provider of software and consulting services to Community Healthcare organizations, charter schools, Head Starts, nonprofits and governmental organizations. With over 2,000 clients across the country, JMT Consulting Group offers a variety of services including hosting, business process improvement, implementation, system selection and system integration and a broad portfolio of software solutions including Sage MIP Fund Accounting, Intacct, Blackbaud FundWare, Sage Fundraising Online, Convio Common Ground, GiftWorks and Sage Fundraising 50 to help organizations become more effective in achieving their mission.

For more information about how to improve your organization’s performance, please contact us at www.jmtconsulting.com .

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CMS established Internet-based Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) as an alternative to the paper (CMS-855) enrollment process. Internet-based PECOS allows physicians, non-physician practitioners and provider and supplier organizations to enroll, make a change in their Medicare enrollment, view their Medicare enrollment information on file with Medicare, or check on status of a Medicare enrollment application via the Internet. The machine readable file for this initiative was released by CMS on Thursday June 24th.

“Within a day of the CMS file release on the new PECOS initiative our programmers were already working to fully integrate a real-time PECOS support tool with cross verification of provider name. This was ready and rolled out to our users the following Monday June 28th, an astonishing 4 days after CMS released the initial file. This highlights the strength of using a centrally hosted Web-based system like ContinuLink where updates and system enhancements can be rapidly and seamlessly rolled out, without user intervention and without interruption of service,” stated ContinuLink CEO Satish Movva.

In addition to the PECOS enrollment and Physician name cross verification, ContinuLink also enhanced the system to automatically take pending enrollments into account. Two days later, on June 30th additional functionality was added to ContinuLink to give real time verification of new physicians as new referrals or physicians were entered into the system.

One ContinuLink customer, Sarah Ahmed of Fresno California stated, “ContinuLink had the solution for PECOS implemented before we even thought to raise the question to them! We came in on Monday morning thinking as most home care providers did that we have to manually check each physician by hand and all of our physicians were already automatically checked for PECOS eligibility by ContinuLink.”

About ContinuLink:

ContinuLink, Your Link to The Continuum of Care(TM), is a software solution for health care businesses including Home Health Care, Hospice, Private Duty, and Supplemental Medical Staffing. With its reliance on open Web technologies, ContinuLink is well ahead of any other software in the industry. “Always available anywhere, anytime, ContinuLink not only makes sense…it makes dollars and sense.”

For more information please visit www.continulink.com or call 561-339-9950.

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It prints on up to two-inch wide rolls of all popular media material at speeds up to 5 inches per second. The M1 accepts a full 6.5 inch diameter roll of media under its easy to load clamshell cover. With 203 dpi resolution, the M1 prints high quality text that is easy to read in health care settings, as well as printing most popular linear and 2D bar codes. The M1 fits between the needs of the Fastmark M2 portable printer and the heavy-duty Fastmark M5 and M7 barcode printers.

Standard features on the Fastmark M1 include the PAL Plus application software and as well as Eltron, Zebra and Datamax emulations, so customers will not need to download or learn new software. It also features an easy to read LCD display enabling downtime and stand-alone applications where data can be entered direct to the printer through a keyboard, so users can work around a down computer connection. It has a real time clock (RTC) for date stamping labels. The media sensor is adjustable, making the M1 compatible with all media formats. The M1 printer comes with 4 MB of flash memory. The M1 is available in two versions, one with internal LAN plus USB the other with USB and Serial. An optional USB host port is also available.

All AMT Datasouth Fastmark printers are available to end users through authorized resellers. For complete Fastmark M1 details see the printer specification at www.amtdatasouth.com/datasheets/13026%20Datasheet_M1%20for%20web.pdf . The Fastmark M1 is now being shipped.

AMT Datasouth has delivered thermal printers since the early 1990s. All of Fastmark brand printers feature the renowned PAL(TM) application programming language to seamlessly integrate them into existing IT systems where they replace embossers, impact or other legacy printers without host reprogramming. Hospitals, vehicle dealers, ticketing outlets, airlines and anywhere barcode printing is used have selected the Fastmark for its ease of use, the expertise provided by AMT Datasouth’s resellers and the ease of working with AMT Datasouth in providing the application software.

AMT Datasouth also offers SDM (Serial Dot Matrix) printers under the brand names Accel, Documax and XL for forms and tractor fed printing applications. AMT Datasouth has built its reputation on providing its customers with what they want.

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DEHCO Commercial, a division of DEHCO, Inc. based in Elkhart, Ind., specializes in providing turnkey solutions for the healthcare, hospitality and education markets, offering some of the best known flat screen television brands.

“Our network of sales, service and distribution centers around the United States make this alliance with Paradigm a perfect fit,” said Matt Pletcher, EVP of Business Development, DEHCO, Inc. “I am excited about the potential that the Paradigm solution presents to us for diversification into new markets.”

By combining Paradigm’s own HC20 technology with LCD TVs manufactured by Sharp, the result is a pillow speaker-ready TV system that saves you from spending that extra 40 percent for typical healthcare TVs.

Dick Bray, President, Imagenable, Inc., a nationwide healthcare television integrator, commented, “Television systems typically sold to healthcare institutions are very expensive and filled with features not necessarily required. The cost effective Paradigm solution is exactly what this industry is looking for.”

HC20 technology works with all standard nurse call systems. Alongside its easy installation and reliable operation, these TV systems are designed to be controlled by the healthcare standard – the Curbell pillow speaker.

Ed Baron, Business Development Manager, Paradigm Multimedia explains, “Our HC20 technology offers an inexpensive pillow speaker TV control that has the skilled nursing and rehab centers extremely excited.”

“Our affordable solution provides their patients with audio privacy and reduces hallway noise created from blaring TVs. Thanks to our alliance with DEHCO Commercial, we are able to provide name brand quality televisions such as Sharp.”

DEHCO, Inc has over 50 years of experience in supply chain management and fulfillment, and has established a strong network of sales, service and distribution centers across the United States allowing them the ability to inventory name brand LCDs and deliver just-in-time to their customers. DEHCO Commercial builds on that reputation with quick and reliable service, a tremendous benefit to the healthcare industry.

In addition to the Midwest headquarters, DEHCO offers a fully integrated network of sales, distribution and service centers throughout North America, including Eugene, Ore., Elkhart, Ind., Adel, Ga., and Manheim, Pa.

To view a demonstration of how the HC20 works with a standard pillow speaker, visit: www.paradigmmultimedia.com .

For more information, contact DEHCO Commercial at 1-800-621-2278 or visit the Web site: www.dehcocommercial.com .

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The American Medical Association estimates that health care providers are losing up to 3 billion dollars each year to the stealthy practice of PPOs. Providers sign agreements with Preferred Provider Organizations (PPO). The PPO steers patients to the provider, and the provider accepts discounted insurance reimbursements. The arrangement worked fine, until the early 1990s when the practice of the ‘Silent PPO’ was discovered.

When an insurance company that is not a PPO receives a claim, they check to see if the practitioner has any PPO agreements. If they do, the insurance company pays the discounted rate, and claims they are ‘affiliated’ with the providers PPO. But usually they are not, and they pocket the difference between the discounted rate and the amount that should have been paid. Sometimes, even worker’s comp and auto insurance companies quietly take these unauthorized discounts. This adjusted rate costs doctors and hospitals millions of dollars in lost revenue each year.

Few health care providers have the time technology or training to check each insurance reimbursement to see if an unauthorized discount was taken, so the practice of silent PPO has thrived. During these difficult economic hardships insurance companies and third-party payers have been greatly affected, therefore they are utilizing Silent PPO discounts as well as other tactics, such as underpaying managed care contractual rates, to increase their bottom line.

SALUS Medical Solutions is one of a handful of companies working to recover this lost revenue. “We audit the doctor’s contracts and review their reimbursements for improper discounts. When confronted, payers are usually quick to pay up. The providers receive their payments directly, within 35-45 days,” Casino said.

According to Casino, his service is risk free – revenue recovery companies charge a percentage of the monies recovered. SALUS sends a representative to the practice to prepare files for analysis (recovery can go back 3 years) and then is an ongoing process to make sure the provider is paid properly. “We make it as easy as possible to assist our clients. That’s why the offices we deal with see our service as a secondary security measure,” says Casino.

Although some states are in the process of passing bills to outlaw the practice of Silent PPOs, only North Carolina has a law in place. Practitioners need to pay close attention to their reimbursements or hire a firm that deals directly with fraudulent discounts which can hurt both the patient and the provider. Patients think they are paying high premiums for top quality care but are being ripped off by the insurance companies who only pay discounted rates. And doctors are losing income which in turn raises the cost of health care. The only winners are the Silent PPOs.

More information: www.salusmedicalsolutions.com.

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