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PolicyCore
PolicyCore

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eCART
eCART

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Description

Product Description:

Optimize your policy management.

The Most Comprehensive Database

Access the most complete database of live and historical medical and pharmaceutical policies and related documents on the market.

Real-Time Notifications

Stay ahead with email alerts on any changes to medical and pharmaceutical policies by payer and therapy, allowing you to respond swiftly to developments that may impact your stakeholders.

Central Access

Effortlessly search and review Medical & Pharmacy policies, draft policies, prior authorization documents, coding guidelines, reimbursement updates, and more—all in one centralized location.

Comparison View

Easily identify differences between current and historical versions using our intuitive viewer that highlights changes for quick reference.

Research Control

Focus your research by filtering specific payers, plan types, states, therapies, devices, or document types, ensuring you find exactly what you need.

Visit https://www.policyreporter.com/industry/providers/ for more information and a free trial.

About Policy Reporter:

Empower your teams with Policy Reporter's payer documents library, change alerts, and reserach tools. 

Healthcare providers face numerous challenges in navigating the complex U.S. healthcare system:​

  • Keeping up with evolving medical necessity criteria, coverage policies, and billing rules​
  • Understanding and complying with diverse payer policies and prior authorization across commercial and government plans​
  • Efficiently managing revenue cycle processes in a constantly changing reimbursement landscape​
  • Ensuring patient access to necessary care while meeting payer requirements​
  • Minimizing claim denials and optimizing reimbursement​

This causes challenges such as: ​

  • Interpreting and applying complex payer policies consistently across the organization​
  • Reducing administrative burden associated with prior authorizations and claim appeals​
  • Staying current with frequent policy changes that impact reimbursement and patient care​
  • Balancing compliance requirements with operational efficiency​
  • Maximizing revenue while ensuring appropriate utilization of healthcare services​

Policy Reporter empowers healthcare providers to address these challenges by:​

  • Delivering analyst-verified alerts for tracking policy changes customize to your specialties and payer mix​
  • Simplifying access to up-to-date coverage criteria, prior authorization and reimbursement rules​
  • Offering comprehensive research capabilities to comply with key contract and claims rules​
  • Supporting efficient revenue cycle management with targeted insights and tools​

Our solutions reduce administrative burden, streamline reimbursement-related research, and empower your entire team to make informed decisions that improve patient care and financial performance.​​

Product Description:
  • eCART is a research-based, AI-driven software as a medical device (SaMD) that utilizes a machine learning algorithm to continuously assess hospitalized patients’ risk of impending death or intensive care unit (ICU) transfer, assisting medical staff in swift and accurate recognition of patients requiring increased medical attention. eCART draws upon readily available patient data from the EHR, rapidly quantifies disease severity, and predicts likelihood of critical illness onset, hours before it happens.
  • eCART received FDA 510(k) clearance in 2024, with clinical performance data of nearly two million hospitalizations from 21 hospitals, including an unprecedented level of real-world prospective data, to ensure consistent accuracy across geography, age, race, and top medical conditions (e.g. sepsis, COPD, heart failure). 
  • Built upon more than a decade of ongoing scientific research, eCART was developed at UChicago Medicine by Dr. Dana Edelson, MD, MS and Dr. Matthew Churpek, MD, PhD and is well chronicled in published literature. The analytic and workflow have been in use in clinical practice since 2016.
About AgileMD:

At AgileMD, we are building the most advanced real-time predictive analytics and clinical pathways platform for hospitals.

To date, AgileMD tools have been used on more than 4 million patient encounters by more than 135,000 clinical users in over 250 hospitals, including some of the nation's leading academic medical centers. AgileMD's eCART clinical deterioration prediction software is FDA cleared and the first AI-powered early warning device for ward patients to go through the FDA process with real-world prospective data. 

AgileMD is backed by premier start-up partners MATTER, YCombinator, and Rock Health, and our cutting-edge analytics are built on more than decade of ongoing research at the University of Chicago. In 2021, AgileMD garnered nearly $3 million in combined federal research and development funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).

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Use Cases

Description:

Denials Management Team:

Challenge: A sudden increase in denied claims needs to be investigated to determine the root cause.

Use Case: Your denials management team can access the specific payer policy that was in place when the claim was originally filed. This helps verify if a policy change caused the denial and provides the documentation needed for appealing the claim based on historical policy criteria.

 

Prior Authorization Team:

Challenge: Inefficient prior authorization processes lead to delays in patient care and increased administrative burden.

Use Case: Your prior authorization team can use a centralized database with the latest policy requirements for specific treatments. Automated alerts notify your team when payers update their prior authorization criteria, ensuring they have up-to-date information for quicker approvals and fewer delays.

 

Physician Advisors & Utilization Review Team:

Challenge: Aligning clinical recommendations with payer guidelines to avoid conflicts and optimize care delivery.

Use Case: Your physician advisors can review the latest payer policies to ensure that clinical decisions align with coverage criteria. This helps avoid peer-to-peer conflicts with payers and reduces the risk of denied authorizations for medically necessary services.

 

Physicians and Prescribers:

Challenge: Staying informed about changes to medication coverage criteria that could impact prescribing habits.

Use Case: Your physicians can subscribe to alerts for specific medications they frequently prescribe. When a payer updates coverage criteria, your physicians receive notifications, allowing them to adjust prescribing patterns or provide alternative treatment options in real-time.

 

Billing & Coding Teams:

Challenge: Coding errors and outdated billing practices lead to increased claim rejections and delays in reimbursement.

Use Case: Your billing and coding teams can verify the latest policy requirements for specific codes before submitting claims. This ensures compliance with payer rules and reduces the likelihood of claim rejections due to incorrect coding.

 

Contract Management Team:

Challenge: Understanding complex payment rules and negotiating favorable terms with payers.

Use Case: Your contract management team can access historical and current payer policies to gain insights into payment rules and criteria. This information can be used to negotiate more favorable contract terms, ensuring parity and compliance with payer requirements.

 

Case Management & Patient Advocacy:

Challenge: Ensuring patients receive timely and appropriate care while navigating complex payer requirements.

Use Case: Your case managers can quickly look up coverage policies for specific treatments or services needed by patients. This allows them to coordinate care more effectively and advocate for patient access to necessary treatments, even when coverage is uncertain.

 

Compliance Officers:

Challenge: Staying compliant with the constantly changing landscape of payer requirements and avoiding costly penalties.

Use Case: Your compliance officers can rely on automated alerts to track policy updates and changes across multiple payers. This allows them to update internal policies and workflows proactively, reducing the risk of non-compliance.

 

Revenue Integrity Team:

Challenge: Identifying and addressing revenue leakage due to underpayments or incorrect payer policies.

Use Case: Your revenue integrity team can use historical policy data to review denied claims and identify discrepancies in payer reimbursements. This information can be leveraged to pursue underpayment recoveries and prevent future revenue loss.

 

Pharmacy Team:

Challenge: Navigating complex formulary changes that affect patient access to medications.

Use Case: Your pharmacy team can monitor payer formulary updates through alerts, allowing them to adjust their inventory and provide patients with the most up-to-date information on medication coverage and alternatives.

Pediatric use cases:

The same use cases can be applied to your pediatric teams. 

Users:
  • Denials Management Team
  • Prior Authorization Team
  • Physician Advisors & Utilization Review Team
  • Physicians and Prescribers
  • Billing & Coding Teams
  • Contract Management Team
  • Case Management & Patient Advocacy
  • Compliance Officers
  • Revenue Integrity Team
  • Pharmacy Team

Description:

eCART anticipates all cause clinical deterioration in medical-surgical (ward) patients and is validated for sepsis, COPD, heart failure, and COVID-19. The EHR-embedded software device is used to prevent failure to rescue and improve timely ICU transfers using a highly-accurate risk score, an interpretable patient dashboard, and actionable clinical workflows.

Pediatric use cases:

pCART, the pediatric version of eCART, is available for research use and is used in clinical practice today. We would be happy to discuss a partnership.

Users:

Medical-surgical nurses and providers, rapid response & critical care teams

EHR Integrations

Integrations:

Not applicable

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Not applicable

EMRs Supported:

Not applicable

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (web optimized)

Integrations:

Acute care EMR

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop

Client Types

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Differentiators

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

Quick Access!

There is no need to have your IT team plan out a complex EHR integration. Access policies via the easy-to-use portal and recieve alerts directly to your email inbox. 

Our team will quickly set up individual user access with customized alerts. 

Differentiators vs Competitors:

The Most Comprehensive Database

Access the most complete database of live and historical medical and pharmaceutical policies and related documents on the market.

Amazing Customer Support 

Our team will work to ensure you get the most out of your Policy Reporter subscription. We strive to be more than a vendor - we want to be your partner in improving patient access. 

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:
  • Continuously monitors EHR data in real time
  • Stratifies hospitalized patients by risk of impending all-cause clinical deterioration and sepsis
  • Notifies inpatient providers when patient may need additional assessment and management
  • Recommends clinical pathways with integrated order entry
Differentiators vs Competitors:
  • Authorized: FDA 510(k) cleared
  • Tested: Derived and validated in nearly 3 million patient encounters across 28 hospitals
  • Experienced: 8+ years in clinical use; 10+ years of published academic literature on value over other early warning scores
  • Accurate: High sensitiviy and specificity, meaning fewer false alarms and more efficient focus on the highest risk patients
  • Integrated: Embedded cross-team workflow ensures that risk scores are not ignored and action is taken
  • Benchmarked: Robust reporting, benchmarking, and implementation support drive quality improvement

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