What is Thin Client Software?

Companion EnterprisEDI€™s Thin Client Software makes it simple to connect to our EDI system right from your Windows desktop. Through the intuitive user environment, you can access our server farm where you can either download files of claims from your hospital information system or key claims directly into Companion EnterprisEDI and incorporate them into each biller€™s inventory.

How does Enterprise EDI reduce errors?

Thanks to Companion EnterprisEDI, catching and correcting errors is simple. Using its data entry screens, you can quickly modify or correct claims within your inventory. Then, as a second line of defense, all claims from your inventory are submitted for Companion EnterprisEDI local edits, payer-specific edits and HIPAA edits, helping make sure your claims are correct. While clean claims are transmitted to payers, any claims with errors are returned to your inventory where you can correct and resubmit them.

Why Electronic Billing?

Electronic Billing from Companion EnterprisEDI helps significantly decrease rejected collections while giving you a safe, efficient billing method that helps makes follow up and management easy and typically results in faster payment.

Companion EnterprisEDI offers a one-source billing system that covers all insurance companies. It takes care of the vast majority of your hospital claims management needs, including print-to-mail capabilities. Just transmit your UB92 and HCFA1500 claims and attachments to Companion Technologies, and we€™ll manage all the printing and mailing.

Also included:

• Accelerated Secondary Claims Billing with hardcopy and electronic remittances and detail bill attachments
• Electronic Patient Statements, Collections Letters and Notifications
• On-demand and Automated Claims Status
• All Payer Eligibility including manual and automated, direct and Internet
• Payer-specific Edits as supplied by the payer
• Customer-specific Customized Edits
• Medicare Compliance Checking
• Graphical UB92 and HCFA Form that allows manual keying or download

Save time with Automated Eligibility

Companion EnterprisEDI€™s Automated Eligibility allows for minimal manual intervention by automatically generating eligibility requests from your registration system and sending them to a printer of your choice. Because eligibility requests can be generated during patient check-in, Automated Eligibility gives you on-demand eligibility. You also have the option to set the system to periodically scan a census file or other input to produce eligibility batches for your pre-registration process.

Automated Eligibility provides consistent throughput rates and availability without the need to dial out. It also provides eligibility information from a wide variety of carriers, including:

• BlueCross BlueShield (select states)
• Medicare
• Medicaid (29 states)
• Tricare/Champus, all regions
• Other commercial payers, including Aetna, Cigna, Humana, Prudential, and many others

Electronic Patient Correspondence

Electronic Patient Correspondence allows you to send us your patient correspondence in an electronic format, either structured data files or print image files. Whether you want to send your patients statements, collection letters, notification letters, or recall notices, we handle all the processing, from printing to mailing, for you.

Electronic Patient Correspondence includes:

• Ability to review and edit each document prior to printing
• Automated address forwarding using the US Postal Service forwarding database

Technical Specifications

Client Server Architecture: Thin client software runs on your desktop and connects to the Companion EnterprisEDI application server via TCP/IP through your local network and our connectivity network.

Connectivity Network: Eliminates the need for dial-up modem lines and other dedicated connections. All claims submissions, inquiries and DDE transactions can be submitted through this single network connection.

Zero Latency: Companion EnterprisEDI gives you an online response to each claim without waiting to €œbatch€� your transactions, giving you a quick response to local, HIPAA and payer-specific edits. You€™ll also receive real time responses regarding claim acceptance from payers who support this feature

Multithreading: With Companion EnterprisEDI, you can submit a claim and continue working on other claims while the previous claim is being submitted, edited and returned to your inventory. You can even begin correcting errors on returned claims before all claims submissions have completed.

Automatic Software Updates: Because Companion EnterprisEDI uses the connectivity network for automatic software updates, you€™ll never need to worry about installing new releases or fixes to your claims management software.

Relational Database: Thanks to relational database technology, Companion EnterprisEDI gives you ready access to your claims data. Combined with the Custom Reports feature, the relational database gives you multiple ways to report on your claims inventory. Additionally, it helps improve claims productivity, biller productivity and queries.