Enterprise Practice Management (EPM)
NextGen EPM (Enterprise Practice Management system) streamlines front and back office administration, improving patient care and your bottom line. With all of the depth and maturity you would expect from a world-class application, NextGen EPM combines an intuitive, easy-to-use interface with true enterprise functionality. Ideal for healthcare networks consisting of multiple practices or specialties as well as growing practices, NextGen EPM features customizable, encounter-driven scheduling and billing processes that enable administrators to proactively manage the business of healthcare. Whether you want to increase practice efficiency, improve cash flow or reduce A/R days, NextGen EPM’s rich content and unrivaled flexibility make it the right solution for all of your practice management needs.
Benefits of NextGen® EPM
NextGen EPM is designed to provide a superior return on investment by improving efficiency, profitability and quality of care. Here are just a few of the results you can expect:
Improved bottom line
- Increases collections
- Improves claims acceptance rate
- Reduces data entry errors and lost charges
- Increases patient loyalty
- Reduces accounts receivable days
Reduces expenses
- Reduces time required to respond to patient inquiries
- Optimizes utilization of resources across the enterprise
- Reduces staff training time
- Speeds patient registration process
- Eliminates double entry of patient data by facilitating data sharing across the enterprise
- Reduces enterprise overhead, staff and IT costs
Reduces risk
- Identifies potential problems before they occur
- Reduces number of procedures performed on ineligible patients
- Supports HIPAA-compliant transactions
- Increases security of patient data
Improved Qaulity
- Increases accuracy of statements and claims
- Improves patient satisfaction
- Reduces data entry errors
NextGen® EPM Features
NextGen EPM is like no other practice management system. First, it's designed from the ground up to take full advantage of Microsoft Windows* technology. Never before has such a powerful system been so easy to use. Second, NextGen EPM is truly designed as an Enterprise Practice Management System (EPM), with the unique ability to manage larger health care enterprises with multiple providers, practices and locations.
- Workflow
- Claims edits & scrubbing
- WorkLog Manager
- Accounts Receivable
- Scheduling
- Collections features
- Registration
- Reporting
- Enterprise patient index
- Excel Report
- Managed Care
NextGen® EPM Architecture
NextGen EPM is a platform-independent, fifth-generation client-server enterprise practice management system. Both scalable and flexible, it adheres to the latest open architecture standards. Written in Microsoft Visual Basic*, NextGen is a true 32-bit, multi-tier system built on the power, popularity and ease-of-use of Microsoft Windows* technology and can be used from any computer running the Windows* operating system.
Enterprise Practice Management
With over 20 clients already configured to submit HIPAA compliant 837 claims files, NextGen Healthcare is dedicated to helping you comply with HIPAA claim transaction and code set standards.
NextGen® EPM enables you to create HIPAA compliant 837 transactions natively to the application—so you do not have to go through a third-party clearinghouse to do so. NextGen® EPM also enables you to process 835 remittance files and create and send electronic secondary claim files natively to the application.
Here are a few key features that differentiate NextGen® EPM from any other vendor’s solution, and help you comply with HIPAA claim requirements:
- NextGen® EPM natively supports a HIPAA compliant 837 claim output file that is accepted by ANY trading partner.
- NextGen® EPM natively supports the returned 997 claims acknowledgement.
- NextGen® EPM natively supports the returned 835 ERA file.
- NextGen® EPM natively supports electronic secondary claim files.
