I would suggest Office Ally because of ease of setup, ease of use, knowledgeable support, cost effectiveness (no bill from them in over one year) and extensive payor list.
Consult this Wiki page for details of how to prepare for electronic submission. The video tutorial on Billing and Claim Generation is excellent. Paper submission will be required occasionally for the problematic claim or for the obscure insurance carrier that does not accept electronic claims.
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We like gateway EDI, they do charge a small fee but their tools are great. We've also used Availity which is free but the customer support is very slow.
--Tony
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We are also shifting to Openemr from eclinical. Our CH is Gateway EDI. Would you mind sharing the API for direct submission of claims? or is it only possible manually? Would appreciate your help.
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I'll give a second vote for Office Ally, with more than 2 years of use it has worked very smoothly. When I originally was getting set up with their tech folks, they were very complimentary of OpenEmr even though they sell their own emr online product. It has been very rare for us to have to resort to paper, so I have never had to use any of the paid services.
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Office Ally charges 40 cents per paper claim. It's cheaper to send a batch of paper claims ourselves.
Occasionally our local Blue Shield carrier will have a problem processing the electronic claim. They usually ask us to fax the CMS 1500 to a specific customer service representative, who then will re-process the claim.
For the single claim to the obscure insurer, it would less expensive to have Office Ally send that claim. The payor list will indicate which claims have to be submitted by paper.
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DKD,
Gateway EDI just works, nothing is needed beyond what is already in OpenEMR
--Tony
Hello Tony,
We are also shifting to Openemr from eclinical. Our CH is Gateway EDI. Would you mind sharing the API for direct submission of claims? or is it only possible manually? Would appreciate your help.
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Am new to OpenEMR like to know -
What are clearing house that OpenEMR will support directly without making much customization and manual submission.
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ARB
Hi,
At present OpenEMR supports manual submission, furthur customizations are required for electronic submission.
openEMR Supports clearing houses such as Office Ally, MedAvant, ZirMED, etc.
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OpenEMR Customization/Support provider,
ViSolve,Inc
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I would suggest Office Ally because of ease of setup, ease of use, knowledgeable support, cost effectiveness (no bill from them in over one year) and extensive payor list.
Consult this Wiki page for details of how to prepare for electronic submission. The video tutorial on Billing and Claim Generation is excellent. Paper submission will be required occasionally for the problematic claim or for the obscure insurance carrier that does not accept electronic claims.
Last edit: fsgl 2013-10-15
We like gateway EDI, they do charge a small fee but their tools are great. We've also used Availity which is free but the customer support is very slow.
--Tony
Hello Tony,
We are also shifting to Openemr from eclinical. Our CH is Gateway EDI. Would you mind sharing the API for direct submission of claims? or is it only possible manually? Would appreciate your help.
Generating the X12 files from OpenEMR and uploading them to clearing houses is a manual step in the process.
hi kevin, it would be pretty cool to set this up as a background service.
I'll give a second vote for Office Ally, with more than 2 years of use it has worked very smoothly. When I originally was getting set up with their tech folks, they were very complimentary of OpenEmr even though they sell their own emr online product. It has been very rare for us to have to resort to paper, so I have never had to use any of the paid services.
Office Ally charges 40 cents per paper claim. It's cheaper to send a batch of paper claims ourselves.
Occasionally our local Blue Shield carrier will have a problem processing the electronic claim. They usually ask us to fax the CMS 1500 to a specific customer service representative, who then will re-process the claim.
For the single claim to the obscure insurer, it would less expensive to have Office Ally send that claim. The payor list will indicate which claims have to be submitted by paper.
Last edit: fsgl 2013-10-16
DKD,
Gateway EDI just works, nothing is needed beyond what is already in OpenEMR
--Tony