Literature: Billing Bridge

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EMS / Ambulance Claims Made Easy

A billing solution designed for EMS and fire agencies that connects with electronic patient care reports (ePCR). ImageTrend Billing Bridge® begins the billing process as data is collected, ensuring faster billing cycles with more timely payments.

• Efficiently import ePCR for billing
• Easily scale the system as needs grow
• Accurately oversee the activity trail

Powerful Billing Solution

Billing Bridge offers invoicing, account advisement, and reconciliation with advanced reporting capabilities in a single enterprise solution. Delivering interoperability with other ImageTrend systems, Billing Bridge eliminates redundant data entry and shortens reimbursement cycles. The open, scalable architecture and modular functionality allows the system to grow as needs, budgets and hardware capabilities allow, delivering continual progression.

Efficient Billing Process

Billing Bridge provides efficiency, flexibility, and consistent accuracy throughout the billing lifecycle with a bi-directional data exchange and automated attachment imports through ImageTrend Elite™. Processes are supported by a robust administrative backend that allows for the creation of multi-faceted business rules to keep up with changing policies, support data management and analysis tools at no additional cost.

Automated, Configurable Operations

Manage processes and promote team self-sufficiency. Features such as the Rules Engine, data validation, securities, and the built-in ImageTrend Report Writer™ are centrally administered by authorized personnel to offer consistent, easy-to-use workflows that allow for intelligent and automated processing. Additional features located at the solution’s core are contract management, automated payer rollover, claim batching, and invoice posting.

Seamless Integrations

Billing Bridge integrates with ePCR software to receive data directly from the patient care report. The automated import includes attachments such as face sheets, ECG, and PCS/ABN. Fire departments using Elite can also recover revenue using their integrated NFIRS data to bill in scenarios such as motor vehicle accidents, vehicle fires, hazmat spills, false alarms, and more.

Security

The multi-tiered security module incorporated into this application meets HIPAA guidelines and has been reviewed and approved by HIPAA officers of various organizations. The reporting and auditing functions of the application’s procedures allow for complete safeguarding and immediate notifications of any attempted breaches. This provides for data access only through assigned permissions and ensures that only those intended to see their data can access it for reporting.