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Sickbay
Sickbay

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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:
Sickbay is an FDA-cleared clinical platform providing hospitals with the only vendor-neutral, integrated patient monitoring solution in healthcare. Sickbay consolidates disparate sourced, time-sequenced patient monitoring data with an average of 25 milliseconds per patient. Sickbay drives cost-effective patient monitoring and powers analytics by providing instantaneous and persisted physiological data to clinicians, researchers, and algorithm developers. Viewing data consolidated in Sickbay on any laptop or mobile device, on wallboards, and in on-prem or remote command centers enables clinicians to deliver the best possible care to patients throughout the hospital.
About Medical Informatics Corp:

Medical Informatics Corp.’s (MIC) mission is to deliver next-generation technologies to unify patient monitoring workflows for healthcare systems. MIC’s decade of innovation with its clinical platform, Sickbay, integrates over 30,000 vendor-neutral signals on two percent of hospital beds with over 10,000 clinical users in the United States. Most hospital systems lack native resolution data aggregated through a single source, instead deploying a multi-device strategy that silos data and data access time frames. The Sickbay Clinical Platform stands alone as the only FDA-cleared platform to aggregate time-series waveform data across disparate devices at native resolution. Current bedside devices delete data on average after 72 hours, while Sickbay saves the data indefinitely. Sickbay provides a portal through which care providers can review aggregated, time-synchronized data, annotate it, and collaborate to create algorithms (including ML & AI) and evaluate post-event care. Those algorithms and care models can then be reintroduced into the platform to advance care and innovation. Simply put, Sickbay provides the hospital teams their data from anywhere, anytime, to optimize workflows, analysis, and risk stratification across the patient care spectrum. The diverse team at MIC is fundamentally unlocking a blue ocean of new patient monitoring capabilities for ourselves, our partners, and our clients. MIC’s Sickbay saves lives, improves outcomes, streamlines strategy and technologies, and reduces the overall caring cost for hospital patients nationwide.

Compatibility level

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Clients

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Product Capabilities

Sickbay collects, integrates, & displays time-aligned medical device data for over 30k signals. Information is displayed to end users in near real-time (~25ms) on local and mobile devices.

Sickbay's Patient Monitor (PatMon) displays per patient waveform and EHR data alerting clinical end users based on parameters defined by the hospital. Sickbay's Multiple Patient Monitor (MultiMon) displays that same information for up to 100 patients on a single screen to support virtual monitoring at scale. Sickbay's Risk Stratification module displays risk score data customized per hospital to improve awareness of patient risk in higher acuity beds. Sickbay's Alert Queue module displays alerts for telemetry patients that have been newly admitted, shift changes, dietary requirements, and rhythm validation.

Sickbay integrates EHRs using interfaces for ADT information, staffing assignments, meds, & labs. Sickbay integrates directly into the EHR to automate the capture and storage of ECG strips on the patient's record without additional, time-consuming, error-prone manual steps.

Sickbay simplifies the clinical theater by centralizing patient monitoring data from devices, EHRs, camera-enabled technology, and 3rd party analytics into a single screen. This enhances the readability and interpretation required to reduce the time-to-treat a deteriorating patient. Sickbay's interface is shared between bedside and remote care teams to drive scale and efficiency. This approach reduces the risk associated with new nursing team members on staff and improves the training / onboarding by using a single platform for patient monitoring. Sickbay's analytics workbench directly connects clinical researchers with bedside teams to develop and implement custom algorithms for specific patient cohorts in near real-time.

Sickbay integrates camera-enabled technology into a single interface alongside near real-time physiological data to provide remote care teams with video support to reduce patient risk and improve the time-to-treat for patients that are deteriorating.

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:
  • Patient Monitoring
  • Remote Patient Monitoring
  • Virtual Care Models: Virtual Nursing, Central Telemetry Monitoring
  • Rounding
  • Vent Management
  • Patient Risk Stratification
  • Interdepartmental Transfers
  • Automation: ECG Strip Automation, Data Management
  • Revenue: CDI, Denials Management
  • Analytics: Compliance, Billing, Cohort Management
  • Research: Algorithm Development
  • Legal: Litigation Support
Pediatric use cases:

Same as use case descriptions above.

Users:
  • Nurses
  • Respiratory Therapists
  • Doctors
  • Anesthesioligists
  • Surgeons
  • CDI
  • Revenue Cycle
  • Research
  • Analytics
  • Quality
  • Compliance
  • Legal

EHR Integrations

Integrations:

Not applicable

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Not applicable

EMRs Supported:

None provided

Hardware Compatibility:

Not applicable

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, ADT, Access +/or revenue cycle, Other

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Allscripts

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (web optimized), Other

Client Types

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:

The EHR is intended to be a point of care reference to support billing. Traditionally, only documenting discreet vitals from patient monitoring devices at single points.

Sickbay Clinical Platform:

  • captures consolidated, persistent, time-series waveform data from networked and non-networked bedside devices at its native resolution
  • re-displays near real-time, time aligned signals at an average latency of <25 mSec
  • integration of risk scores and analytics
Differentiators vs Competitors:

Sickbay is a single, interconnected platform that is designed to support dozens of use cases, therefore competition is dependent upon the use case. In addition to the data agggregation, consolidation, and visualilzation differences referenced under EHR functionality, key differentiators in patient monitoring & virtual care include: 

  • vendor neutral device integration
  • web-based to support monitoring on any PC, tablet, phone or embedded EHR workflow
  • flexible, modular design to enable ability to monitor 50+ patients across units, facilities, and vendors
  • unlimited retrospective data, from one second to one year+, to support building and sharing of trends, CDI documentation support, quality reporting
  • integration, development and deployment of near real-time risk scores and analytics into established workflows
  • automated documentation of vitals, ECG strips, and event trends into the EHR

Health Equity

Keywords

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