The User highlights the appropriate referral and confirms the entry. The referral is applied and the number of visits used is incremented. ZyMed imports the referral number into the claim for paper or electronic claim submission thus eliminating manual entry and data entry errors. ZyMed automatically recognizes if the patient has referrals and reports referral status upon adding an appointment. If the patient has expired referrals, the system also notifies the User.
Staff can then inform the patient that a new referral is required.
If a referral is active, the system will report important information such as expiration date, visits remaining, and more. This easy to use feature is another tremendous time saver. Practices with multiple office locations can centralize the collection and data entry of the referral information. Auditron is working closely with managed care carriers to implement these EDI and other options into the ZyMed Practice Management System. The goal is to eliminate paper based referrals.