Can Medisoft Improve Your Physical Therapy Practice?

Medisoft, the country’s leading EMR and medical billing software for small physicians’ offices, is also the ideal medical billing and EMR solution for other types of medical practices. If you’re a physical therapist, occupational therapist, natural health practitioner or any other health practitioner who bills insurance companies and other third parties, you can benefit from implement Medisoft EMR or Medisoft Clinical as your medical records solution.

Medisoft has been providing medical billing, scheduling and patient record solutions for decades. The company provides enterprise-wide solutions for some of the largest and best-known clinics and hospitals in the world, including University of Massachusetts and all of its affiliated practices. When McKesson scaled down the Medisoft software for smaller practices, they kept all the bells and whistles that make it such an amazingly useful suite of medical software tools. Here’s what Medisoft EMR can do for your PT practice.

Appointment Scheduling

As a small physical therapy practice, every block on your schedule is vitally important to your income. Unlike doctors, who typically schedule 3-4 blocks per hour, the typical physical therapy appointment lasts for 30 to 45 minutes. Once you’ve added in time for notes and reporting, most therapists only book one appointment per hour. And if you schedule appointments for in-home PT, your appointment schedule could be even tighter.

Medisoft Clinical includes an optional module that can automate appointment reminders and check with your clients 2-3 days out from scheduled appointments to make sure they’re still planning to keep the appointment. It can be configured to allow clients to reschedule their own appointments for designated open blocks of time and to alert you on your desktop when a client cancels an appointment. That makes it easier to refill canceled blocks so you don’t miss out on the income.

Automatic Medical Coding

If you bill Medicare, Medicaid or any of the major insurance companies, your bills must be submitted with the correct diagnosis and billing codes and in the correct format. Medisoft EMR can automatically insert the appropriate codes in every area of your patient charts. That means your office staff doesn’t have to spend hours a week finding and inserting the correct diagnostic and billing codes for each payment entity. You make your entries on the patient chart during or immediately after a patient encounter and your information populates throughout the entire chart. In addition to saving you time and money, it can reduce the kinds of errors often introduced during transcription.

In addition to those two benefits, if you choose Medisoft EMR with online access, you’ll be able to access patient charts and records no matter where you are – a major boon when you do home visits or visits in hospital or nursing homes.

If you want to know more about how Medisoft can make a difference in your physical therapy practice, contact an official affiliate for more information.