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EHR integrations
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Product Description:

Payers can have dozens of fee schedules that contain thousands of codes. Finding the right fee schedule can be a challenge and navigating the document can also prove time-consuming. 

   

Our Government Fee Schedule tool provides you access to fee schedules in a centralized location.

  

Its interactive interface streamlines analysis and enables data export, empowering healthcare providers to make informed financial decisions and optimize revenue.

  

https://www.policyreporter.com/solutions/fee-schedule-lookup/

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:

The Stel Vitals Hub seamlessly and securely connects bluetooth vitals devices to health records without complex setup, WiFi, or mobile applications.

Healthcare leaders are struggling with the reality of the digital divide and integrating hundreds of point solutions across the care continuum.

Patients simply plug in the Hub and use their vitals device.
Care teams can better monitor patient trends and alerts within their preferred workflow.

With Stel, patients don’t require Wi-Fi, smartphones, or tech-literacy to connect with their care teams. 

Stel passively and securely connects the device data to their care team’s Electronic Health Records (EHR) or preferred platform without risking Protected Health Information (PHI) or complicated workflows. 

About Stel:

Stel Life simplifies connectivity for patients, care teams, digital health, and device companies.

Healthcare leaders are struggling with the reality of the digital divide and integrating hundreds of point solutions across the care continuum. With Stel, patients don’t require Wi-Fi, smartphones, or tech-literacy to connect with their care teams. Patients use health devices near a Stel Node. Stel passively and securely connects the device data to their care team’s Electronic Health Records (EHR) or preferred platform without risking Protected Health Information (PHI) or complicated workflows. 

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Clients

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Product Capabilities

The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Center for Telehealth team partnered with Stel Life, Inc. to present the results of their innovative “Not Home Alone: A COVID-19 Post-Discharge Remote Patient Monitoring Pilot” program at the October 2022 American Academy of Nursing Health Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. More here: https://telehealthcoe.org/musc-remote-patient-monitoring-team-recognized-at-the-american-academy-of-nursing-health-policy-conference/

Stel’s patented “Passive and Secure Heath Device Connectivity” allows patients to connect with their care team without requiring wifi, smartphones, or tech-literacy. Patients simply take their vitals within 100-ft of any smart IoT Hub (Stel, Amazon Echos, Routers), and Stel will securely transmit the measurement to the patient’s EHR and/or care team’s preferred digital health platform. Stel is a push only system and takes no-PHI or customer data in this process. Throughout the pandemic, Stel’s Cellular and Bluetooth Hub base model supported vulnerable patients experiencing the digital divide or challenging social determinants of health. This base Vitals Hub has no buttons, switches, or extra pairing steps. The Vitals Hub has a growing device ecosystem and can connect with hundreds of specialty and general devices for remote care. Stel is working to expand their Operating System to support Internet Modems, Routers, Smart HomeSpeakers, and other internet gateways to enable safe and accessible connectivity needed for all patients to connect with their care-teams. Stel’s patents include: US Pat. 11,165,866 + Pat. 11,246,026

As we move forward, who do we risk leaving behind? The pandemic has exposed the current reality of the digital divide. 43% of lower income americans lack broadband + 60% of medical facilities (outside of metropolitan areas lack broadband) 41% of Medicare beneficiaries lack smartphones Even if they do have access, there’s a question about passwords and security - last year, Knightscope revealed 100% of top 30 Health Apps were hacked. As Health System and Care team are being pushed to formalize equitable digital health strategies, it’s no wonder that we’re seeing headlines stating: “75% of Health System Leaders aren’t happy with their digital health strategy” As Patients and Care Teams evolve the standard of care to the home, common barriers that emerge are: 1) Complexity for Patients (especially those that lack wifi, smartphones, and/or comfort with tech), 2) Care Team burnt out, especially with new systems and non-standardized processes outside the EHR, 3) Varying and non-standard Privacy and Security practices by Device Manufacturers. Motivated by sensor experts being forced to master separate PHI, App Development, and EHR flows in order to commercialize their products. Stel’s proprietary technology is designed to simplify these complexities in a safe and secure way, so Patients and Care Teams have confidence to adopt the new normal of care. Health Systems can use multiple companies as patients navigate Hospital at Home, Transition of Care, Chronic Condition Management, and Wellness - that patient will only need 1 Stel Hub to interact with those various programs.

Rapid Device Integrations: Requested device integrations are completed in record time. Throughout the supply chain hassles, Clinicians were able to switch and offer alternative devices sourced from their local pharmacies. All worked with Stel without any issues. Stel's record was 4 devices integrated over night (before the start of the next work day). Specialty Device Integrations: Stel's supported devices include lab quality home-blood tests to implantable devices. EHR and Digital Health Integrations: Because of Stel's No-PHI flows, Health Systems were able to streamline IT and legal review to complete EHR integration within days (with limited resources).

Check out our customer reviews. We strongly believe in supporting and eliminating burden, hassle, and extra time for care teams boldly evolving care to the home.

Use Cases

Description:

Revenue Integrity Team:

Challenge: Identifying discrepancies in reimbursement rates across different payers.

Use Case: Your revenue integrity team can use the Fee Schedule Lookup Tool to quickly compare reimbursement rates for specific codes across payers, including government fee schedules. This helps identify underpayments and supports negotiations for fair reimbursement rates.

  

Contract Management Team:

Challenge: Negotiating favorable reimbursement rates with commercial payers.

Use Case: Your contract management team can leverage the tool to compile reimbursement data for specific codes and payers, providing a clear comparison of rates. This data can be exported and used as a reference during contract negotiations to secure better terms.

  

Billing & Coding Teams:

 

Challenge: Ensuring claims are submitted with accurate and compliant reimbursement rates.

Use Case: Your billing and coding teams can search the Fee Schedule Lookup Tool by specific codes to verify the correct reimbursement rate for each payer before submitting claims. This helps ensure accurate billing and reduces the likelihood of payment discrepancies.

  

Physician Advisors & Utilization Review Team:

Challenge: Evaluating the financial impact of clinical decisions based on payer reimbursement rates.

Use Case: Your physician advisors can use the tool to review and compare reimbursement rates for different procedures across payers. This information can guide clinical decision-making and support cost-effective care planning while maintaining alignment with payer policies.

  

Compliance Officers:

Challenge: Staying compliant with payer-specific fee schedule updates and avoiding penalties.

Use Case: Your compliance officers can utilize the Fee Schedule Lookup Tool to monitor updates to government fee schedules and commercial payer rates. By accessing the latest data, they can proactively adjust internal billing practices and policies to ensure compliance.

 

Finance Department:

Challenge: Forecasting revenue based on current and projected reimbursement rates.

Use Case: Your finance department can export fee schedule data for analysis, helping to project revenue based on expected reimbursement rates. This data can be used to build more accurate financial models and budget forecasts.

Prior Authorization Team:

Challenge: Determining cost-effectiveness of procedures based on payer reimbursement rates.

Use Case: Your prior authorization team can use the tool to quickly look up the expected reimbursement rates for procedures requiring authorization. This information helps in assessing the financial viability of requested treatments and aids in the approval process.

  

Case Management & Patient Advocacy:

Challenge: Helping patients understand out-of-pocket costs and insurance coverage.

Use Case: Your case managers can access reimbursement rate information for specific codes and payers, giving them the data needed to estimate patient financial responsibility. This helps provide more accurate cost estimates and supports patient education on coverage.

Pharmacy Team:

Challenge: Understanding reimbursement rates for medications and procedures tied to pharmacy services.

Use Case: Your pharmacy team can search the Fee Schedule Lookup Tool for specific codes related to medications or infusion services. This allows them to compare payer reimbursement rates and adjust pricing strategies or inventory decisions accordingly.

 

Executives & Leadership:

 

Challenge: Gaining insight into payer reimbursement trends to guide strategic decisions.

Use Case: Your executive team can use the Fee Schedule Lookup Tool to analyze trends in reimbursement rates across key payers. The interactive format and exportable data provide actionable insights that inform strategic planning, contract negotiations, and financial decision-making.

Pediatric use cases:

Same use cases as listed above. 

Users:
  • Revenue Integrity Team
  • Contract Management Team
  • Billing & Coding Teams
  • Physician Advisors & Utilization Review Team
  • Compliance Officers
  • Finance Department
  • Prior Authorization Team
  • Case Management & Patient Advocacy
  • Pharmacy Team
  • Executives & Leadership
Description:

Clinical Conditions and Programs

•Anticoagulation Clinics

•Asthma

•Bariatrics

•COPD

•COVID 19

•Diabetes

•Hypertension/Heart Failure

•Maternal pre/post delivery

•Transplant

•VAD

Populations

•Post hospitalization

•Hospital at Home

•Transitions in care

•Older Adults

•Rural / Urban

•FQHC

•Tribal Communities

•Bilingual

•Research

Pediatric use cases:

See clinical conditions and programs

Users:

Patients and their care teams

EHR Integrations

Integrations:

Not applicable

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Not applicable

EMRs Supported:

None provided

Hardware Compatibility:

Not applicable

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR, Ancillary EMR, Patient portal, Pop health platform, Home health, ADT, Access +/or revenue cycle

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Recommended, but not required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Other, athena, Self-developed

Hardware Compatibility:

Not applicable, Other

Client Types

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Differentiators

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

There is no need to have your IT team plan out a complex EHR integration. Access Fee Schedule Lookup Tool via the easy-to-use portal. 

Our team will quickly set up individual user access. 

Differentiators vs Competitors:

The Most Comprehensive Database

Access the most complete database of government fee schedules compiled in an easy-to-use tool. 

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:

Currently, EHR do not routinely provide RPM Workflows. Many clinicians support RPM with external applications and platforms that create duplicative work and increase the likelihood of transcription errors. The Stel solution provides data directly into the EHR where clinicians are working and allows for seamless access to patient generated health data flowsheets. 

Differentiators vs Competitors:

Stel Vitals Hub has a zero-trust architecture that does not ingest any PHI. Stel does not require the patient to have a smartphone, WiFi, or app-literacy. Ideal for patients struggling from the digital divide.

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