SAAS Medical Systems

SAAS Medical Systems provides a  full-featured Cloud practice management system for General Practice.

 

You have the option of working entirely with the web application (SaaS Web) from any browser, or switching to the desktop version (SaaS Cloud Desktop) accessing the same Cloud database.

 

The functionality and the workflow is the same. No need to learn another system.

 

This unique feature provides unmatched versatility. When at home or on the move, you can work with SAAS Web. In the office, you can work with SAAS Desktop, which does provide some additional advantages for power users.

 

Personal Details can be entered quickly and easily. "Tab through" assists with data entry.

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Medicare, Health Care and DVA card details can be verified with Medicare Online.

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Additional TABS allow Private Health Fund details, Referrals, Contacts, and Family Relationship groups to be entered.

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The Front Desk provides single click access to all of the most common tasks performed by the Front Desk receptionist 

 

 

Patient Billing is designed for rapid, accurate data entry for simple and complex billing.

 

The Account Billing Type is set for operator Defaults that can be over-ridden).

 

The billing workflow will adapt to whichever billing type is being used (e.g. Private/Standard, Medicare/DVA Online Billing, Medicare Bulk or Batch billing etc.)

 

Item Types can be from your customised Quick-Pick, entered directly, or selected from a search list. 

Within a Practice, if required, you have the ability to associate multiple Locations/Clinics and Divisions, and also multiple associated banking details in the case of partners or associates.

 

• If required, Credit Note and Write-Off facilities are available

• With Back-End Receipting, payments can be allocated over a number of invoices.

• Medicare confirmed payments can automatically be receipted.

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SAAS Desktop provides a single click export of all accounting reports to excel. Additionally, end-user reporting is available via SAAS Desktop

 

Medicare Online capabilities available for Bulk Billing, DVA, and Patient Claims. 

 

A number of additional features facilitating easy receipting and reconciliation of Medicare payments is also included.

 

You have the ability to perform Online Patient Verification, directly bill and claim at the same time, or batch claims at the end of day.

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The Medicare Online functions incorporated into SAAS Medical Practice Management System are:-

•       Bulk Bill(DBS)

•       Department of Veterans Affairs Paperless Streamlined (DVA)

•       Patient Claims Interactive (PCI)

•       Patient Claims Store and Forward (PCS)

•       Online Patient Verification (OPV)

•       Online Concession Entitlement Verification (OCV)

•       Online Veteran Verification (OVV)

Provide cost information to patients prior to admission to hospital or treatment to facilitate Informed Financial Consent. 

 

Provides patients with an estimate of the full cost of the episode of care from all relevant service providers, including how much of that cost the patient will be expected to pay out-of-pocket. 

 

The ECLIPSE web service supports this process by indicating the benefit Medicare and/or their PHI will pay for identified services that can then be subtracted from the total cost to provide an indication of the patient’s out-of-pocket expenses.

 

 

Allows you to check the eligibility of a patient in relation to their Medicare and/or Private Health Insurer (PHI) status and obtain an estimate of out-of-pocket expenses relating to:

 

•  a hospital stay

•  prosthetic and miscellaneous services

•  Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) services

ECLIPSE - (Electronic Claim Lodgement and Information Processing Service Environment) is an extension of Medicare Online claiming. It offers a secure connection between:

 

 

• Health Professionals

• Public and Private hospitals

• Billing Agents

• Private Health insurers

• Department of Veterans' Affairs

• Medicare

 

 

It includes direct communication in the one transaction between your Practice, Medicare and Private Health Insurers.

ECLIPSE can be used for both paid and unpaid In-Patient Medical Claims and is lodged directly to Medicare with SAAS Web. 

The Medicare ECLIPSE Menu is where you access Medicare Processing Reports (IMC Reports) and ECLIPSE Remittance Advice Reports (ERA Reports - amounts paid to your account by the Health Funds).

 

1. IMC Reports (In-Patient Processing Reports) - present a list of IMC (In-Patient Medical Claims) and the current status of each claim.

 

2. ERA Reports (ECLIPSE Remittance Advice Reports) - present a list and the details of amounts paid.

 

When ERA's are retieved - each Remittance Advice then has to be reconciled with the originating IMC. The amount deposited to your bank account is Receipted and the Invoice Status is set the PAID.

 

Note that the entire process of lodgeing an In-Patient Claim - to receiving the Remittance Advice can take some time and depends on the Health Fund and their billing cycle.

Access all Clinical functions from Doctors Desk.

 

including:

• Patient Referral Letters

• Reminders and Recalls

• Pathology Requests and Results

• Prescriptions

• Patient Consultation Records

• Patient Medical Reports and Approval

• Report retrieval and Reprint Facility

• Report Tracking

Quick Access to Arrivals and Waiting Room

Dashboard

Quick Links to Front Desk, waiting Room, Appointments, accounts, Medicare, and Administration functions

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SAAS Medical Systems is partnered with MIMS and eRx to provide a fully integrated Prescriptions module.

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Quick access to Medicare and DVA records for the patient, and the ability to verify these online prior to issuing the prescription.

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Drug Interactions and Allergy Alerts are included.

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There is a complete Medications History.

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Reprints (in case of printing error) as well as a facility to create a new script based on medication history.

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Ability to cancel or modify eRx prescriptions already submitted.

 

Streamlined Appointments for SAAS Web and SAAS Desktop

• Single click to change calendar view to Day / Week / Month View

• Create appointments directly on the calendar. Options to check registration or create new registrations

• Drag and Drop to Move or Extend Appointments

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For Group Practices - Rosters and Scheduling

With SAAS Desktop - manage available of doctors within clinics for Appointments.

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For Radiology - Booking System

Resource, equipment availability by Room.

This is an advance feature for SAAS Desktop available on request only.

 

SAAS Medical Systems comes with a report editor (Microsoft Word is not required)

 

The Template Editor allows you to easily create your own Letter Templates with a drag-and-drop feature.

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Include your own logos.

 

The Common Text feature enables you to create your own library of common text and boilerplate - which is then included to your letter with drag-and-drop.

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