The visit is recorded while the patient is still standing there
Testing is a first-class thing to record here. It carries its own service line on the encounter and on the claim, and its own catalogue entry holding codes, modifiers, fee and the fields a test has to capture. Attergo takes the evidence at the moment it exists.
The evidence that decides the claim is created in the two minutes the test takes
Which specimen, what result, who read it, on what date, under whose authority. Every one of those is trivially available while the patient is standing there and effectively unobtainable afterwards. The claim gets produced later, by somebody else, out of whatever survived. No amount of claim tooling repairs that downstream.
The mechanism behind it.
A persisted service line
Testing is a stored value on the encounter and on the claim, so it can be counted, filtered and reported on rather than inferred from a description somebody typed.
The catalogue entry decides what must be captured
Codes, modifiers, place of service, fee and the documentation template live on the entry, and the template is edited by whoever owns the service. Adding a required field is configuration, not a release.
Signed, timed, and amendable with a reason
The encounter records who attested and when. An amendment keeps the original alongside the reason for the change, so the record is defensible as well as present.
The programme that sponsors the testing is on the record
A facility is enrolled in a payer programme and its activity is exported to that programme in the format it expects, rather than re-keyed somewhere else by whoever has time.
What this runs on.
Billing
Turn the clinical work already happening into clean medical claims, from encounter to remittance.
Read more →Audit
Answer any audit letter in minutes, because the evidence was assembled as the work happened.
Read more →Compliance
One register for every obligation, expiry and attestation, scored so you know where you stand before an inspector does.
Read more →Intelligence
Ask what happened to your margin last month and get an answer, not a spreadsheet.
Read more →Ask what a service costs you to deliver.
A read-only connection and credentials you can revoke. We come back with what the last month of clinical work produced, using your own numbers.