As the administrative burdens associated with managing a practice continue to multiply, many physicians find themselves caught between the desire to practice medicine and the need to constantly deal with a never-ending list of administrative trivia. eHealthTech’s end-to-end practice management solution was designed for those healthcare providers that wish to focus 100% of their attention on serving the clinical needs of their patients. In essence, our practice management offering encompasses the non-clinical aspects of running a practice.

Key service elements include:

• Complete billing and collection services
• Staffing: eHealthTech can help its clients recruit physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, and administrative personnel
• Provider Enrollment: Completing the required forms for group and individual provider numbers, obtaining all necessary credentialing information, following up with payers and clients regarding the status of enrollment obtain electronic billing identification numbers, and requesting retroactive approval of provider numbers.
• Consulting on Insurance Participation Agreements: Negotiating with carriers on a fee schedule and a claims payment schedule.
• Appointment Scheduling and Tracking, Patient Registration, and Eligibility Verification: eHealthTech uses the AdvancedMD Practice Management System’s Resource Appointment Scheduling system along with McKesson for this service.
• Office Management: eHealthTech can assume responsibility for the on-site management of your business office employees, under our management agreement.
• Information Technology Outsourcing: eHealthTech can provide clients with access to our information technology resources on an outsourced basis.
• Patient Information Management: Storage and retrieval of patient demographic and medical records using web-accessible document management systems.
• Payroll and Benefit Administration: payroll computation, writing of payroll checks (or direct deposit), accrual of benefits, payroll tax deductions and forms filing, providing health and other additional insurance benefits, optional 401k programs, handling COBRA notifications and payments for terminated employees, garnishments, and support during IRS audits.
• Human Resource Management: under independent service agreement with “The Delken Group”, a leading full-service human resources and employer-employee training and consulting firm.
• Chart Audits: conducted both internally by eHealthTech’s certified coding staff, and externally upon request by the client.
• Accounting Services: on-line monitoring of lockbox and operating bank accounts.

This offering is ideal for new practices and also for those existing practices that find they spend too much time on business administration. Pricing will vary depending on circumstances; however in virtually all cases will be competitive with the cost of performing this work internally.