Our eClinicalworks Support and Training Staff pulled together some practice basics. We show how an EMR integrates with overall workflow of a practice. As many of you know, roles and interaction with eClinicalworks becomes diminished the larger the practice, the medical group, or hospital becomes. In the series of posts, we will comprehend the workflow for a medical practice and groups plus dabble a bit into the eClinicalworks interface itself.
First, let’s begin with roles and titles within a small practice.
Medical Assistants:
- Front Desk
- Referrals – Referring to specialist
- Vitals – Taking pulse, blood pressure, height, weight, and medication list.
Administrative Assistants:
***Administrative Assistants are not MAs. They cannot do injections and vitals.
Physician Assistant:
People choose the path of Physician Assistant because it’s a lot of what the doctor does without all the extra schooling requirements. They cannot perform surgeries and are always under the supervision of a doctor.
Doctor:
There are so many types of doctor specialist. Here are just a few we work with and their specialties.
- General Practitioner or Family Practice.
- This is your primary care physician before they redirect or refer you to a more specific specialist if you need more care.
- Otolaryngologist (ENT)
- General Surgeon
- Urologist
Eclinicalworks Per Provider Model
eClinicalworks EMR software pricing model is based on how many providers are at the practice. Both Doctors and PA’s are considered “providers”. The eClinicalworks cost associated with these providers may vary. Look in the attachment below at the cost per provider and you will see it’s $10000 for one provider running eCW and $15,000 for two in a locally hosted eCW environment, not SaaS. Practices make the mistake of having ten year on-going subscription when they should have bought the service out right. Call our eClinicalworks Support and Training to find out how to reduce your costs of owning the licenses and hosting on-site or off-site with a third party hosting provider.
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Insurance Carriers
Understanding a member’s insurance really gives insight on who gets what treatment at a practice. Here are some popular insurance names and plans in the San Diego region:
- Care First HMO
- Molina HMO
- Health Net HMO
- Community Heath Group (CHG) HMO
- Aetna Health HMO
- Sharp HMO
- Cigna HMO
- Blue Shield HMO
- Medi-cal (low income) HMO
- Medicare (65 and older) HMO
Certain individuals carry the PPO plan. PPO plans are more expensive insurance plans that allow the patient to choose whatever doctor he or she wants. Practices general give priority to PPO unless the HMO carrier is bleeding out because the compensation for the visit is better.
– Commercial and PPO $80
– HMO $20
Capitated Contracts
A healthcare plan that allows payment of a flat fee for each patient it covers. Under a capitation, an HMO or managed care organization pays a fixed amount of money for its members to the health care provider.
Medi-cal (HMO) is under a Capitated Contract. This particular practice receives Medi-Cal members on an annual basis. 2,000 members are received and Medi-cal requires the practice to contact them. While this is done by the practice, calling 2000 members is incredibly time consuming especially when the practice is basically being compensated a fixed amount by Medi-Ca.
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