How the EMR Software or EHR Software will reduce costs at my medical office

EncounterNotes provides the medical software you need either a Client / Server EMR Software solution for your office, or an ASP enabled EHR Software either with our medical billing service or without it. You will also get the Free medical scheduler software, and free training. After learning about your practice and your medical software requirements, we will tell you how much we can save you to the point you can get a discounted EHR software with free training. This Electronic Medical Record Software solution is NOT a cheap $995 software, but a CCHIT certified and sophisticated EMR Software well known as electronic medical record software with touch screens, and fully featured to run all your locations. You will also be elegible for the $44K - $64K stimulus program.

If you want to save money, then think about this: We already invested to provide Medical Billing Service and free paperless software solutions to our customers. So why would you want to invest in the full Medical Software again?. We are able to include reduced EHR cost as part of our billing service. If you prefer a different approach, then we can provide everything you need from the medical software point of view, implementation, training, full EMR software support, including ReminderPro and Network and Monitoring Services, then you decide later with other services from us.

Here are the components you may need for your in-house medical billing and EHR Software:

Practice Management Software

Appointment Scheduling,

Eligibility Verification,

Appointment Reminder Software, ReminderPro

Billing & Collections, automatic ERA posting, Claims scrubbing EHR EMR Medical Receptionist

EHR / EMR Software, Electronic Medical Records
Electronic Medical Records Software, Protocols
Lab Interface,
e-prescribing,
Scanning capabilities to be chartless, Fax send/receive directly into the EHR

Paperless software solution
All scanning that is not related to a specific patient,
Invoices,
Faxes,
EOB’s,
Contracts, etc

Plus all the implementation, training, yearly support, and hardware associated costs.

Our medical software solutions are proven to work within your workflow and specialty, not just that, we have implementation methodologies that work for your practice. All of our professionals have extensive technical and medical billing background. We have already researched for the most functional, comprehensive, and CCHIT certified EHR Software / EMR software for you. You can continue doing your research, and at the end you will find that our solutions will best fit your needs and at the lowest cost.

With our Medical Billing Service option, there is no software to buy or install, reduced training costs, no hardware costs, or other investments. You get the best of both worlds, Medical Billing Service and proven EHR / EMR software.

Let us automate your practice. Let’s get into a win-win business relationship with your practice, and your technology software and service needs.

The purpose of a IFR certified EMR / EHR is to understand the 2011 Ambulatory EHR criteria, the certification is designed to explain the benefits of certification and what else is needed to consider when physicians are choosing EHR or Electronic Medical Records Software. Every year a new concise guide to certification provides a new criteria and shows how certification of EHRs ensures that the EHR solution is a qualified electronic health records software under ARRA. These criterias will be further adjusted to meet the final 2011 meaningful use objectives required by HHS.

Some of the requirements to qualify for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), EHR Electronic Health Records, EMR Electronic Medical Records incentives:

- Provider for Medicare or Medicaid;
- Be a meaningful EHR user
- Physicians must qualify
- Proves to have implemented a qualified EHR software and be interoperable

Physicians with a qualified EHR, qualified EMR in place before 2011 or 2012 will be eligible for the maximum Medicare incentive payments allowed by the stimulus package. Doctors who have not adopted an EHR before 2015 and who fail to obtain a hardship exemption will see a 1% cut to Medicare pay, a reduction that phases up to 3% for 2017 and remains each year after that.

The inclusion of e- prescribing in the Medicare Modernization Act says that in 2009 and 2010, physicians who are using e-prescribing could receive an incentive payment of 2 percent of their overall Medicare reimbursement much as physicians who successfully report measures (one of which addresses e-prescribing) in the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) may receive a 1.5 percent bonus in 2007 and 2008. The PQRI bonus for 2009 has been increased to 2 percent.

In 2011, however, the reward for e-prescribing will begin to decrease, a fee for not using e-prescribing will begin in 2012. The e-prescribing incentive payment will be 1 percent in 2011 and 2012, and 0.5 percent in 2013. The fee for not using e-prescribing will be a reduction in Medicare reimbursement by 1 percent in 2012, 1.5 percent in 2013, and 2 percent in 2014.

Depreciation and Expenses 2009

Section 179 limits. The maximum expense deduction you can elect for qualified property you placed in service in tax years that begin in 2009 remains at $250,000 ($285,000 for qualified enterprise zone property and qualified renewal community property). This limit is reduced by the amount by which the cost of property placed in service in the tax year exceeds $800,000

Under the 2008 Economic Stimulus Act (ESA), you can take further advantage of the Section 179 expense allowance to write off the entire cost of your new and used Healthcare equipment purchases in 2008.
Specifically, the expense allowance has been temporarily increased from $128,000 to $250,000 for taxpayers with total capital investments of $800,000 or less. Equipment acquired with a capital lease ($1 purchase option) and placed into service by December 31, 2008 is eligible for the increased allowance.

HOW EMR / EHR REDUCES COSTS