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iTech Workshop, a leading Medical Billing, Practice Management, RCM Software vendor with a special focus on delivering a secure cloud-based Medical Billing, RCM, Practice Management Solution, Claims Processing and TPA Solutions to healthcare providers through its expEDIum Suite announces its partnership with RAPID Healthcare Solutions.

Some key aspects of this partnership are :

• The expEDIum Medical Billing Solution offered as “RAPID RCM” is available to the existing client base and new clients across the US.
• Some clients are still relying on labor-intensive, manual claims processing or legacy systems that will be migrated to more scalable technology solutions with longer shelf life.
• With RAPID RCM, providers can process claims more efficiently, securely and with fewer moving parts than other systems
• RAPID Healthcare Solutions will also offer expEDIum Billing Services to clients interested in offloading even more of the billing process.

A number of loyal RAPID Healthcare Solutions customers have already implemented the new RAPID RCM solution including some Ambulance/EMS agencies, Durable Medical (DME) Suppliers, physician practices and other clinics that are acting as early adopters.

Ms. Jessica Hasler, Director of Business Development and Sales, said, “RAPID Healthcare Solutions is always looking for reliable, scalable technology that can help our clients advance their business. The RAPID team puts customer satisfaction above all else and iTech can offer our organization the kind of tailored solutions and top-notch support that we can then pass on to our clients.”

“This is a good partnership considering ECC Technologies’ well-entrenched presence in healthcare provider market, to offer affordable, sustainable claim processing solutions to their client base & we look forward to a long, fruitful business relationship.”, said Mr. Siva Narayanaswamy, CEO of iTech.

About Rapid Healthcare

RAPID Healthcare Solutions is a division of ECC technologies, Inc., a NY based company founded in 1995. RAPID is a full-service technology, healthcare consulting group, that provides direct payer connectivity to both commercial insurance companies and CMS as a Medicare-approved Network Service Vendor (NSV). They serve hundreds of provider, hospital, home health, hospice, skilled nursing, billing and clearinghouse organizations across the US. RAPID Healthcare is owned by ECC Technologies, Inc., a WBENC-certified Women-Owned Business Enterprise, Women-Owned Small Business, NC HUB and Veteran-Owned Small Business, with offices in Penfield, N.Y. and Raleigh, N.C.

Jessica Hasler

Director of Business Development and Sales

jhasler@ecctechnologies.com

855-643-2252

www.rapidhealthcare.com,www.ecctec.com

About iTech Workshop Private Limited

iTech delivers a secure Cloud-based Healthcare Solutions and Revenue Cycle Management Solutions & Services to Medical practices/Clinics, Hospitals, Ambulatory Surgery Centers, EMS/Ambulance Providers, Billing Service Bureaus, IPAs, ACOs, TPAs, ASOs, and MSOs. We are a leading vendor in the Public Health Clinic space in a specific state along with one of our EHR Partners and have presence in over 16 states. The expEDIum Solutions are available on a monthly subscription with the affordable and sustainable pricing model.

Siva Narayanaswamy

Executive Director & CEO

nsiva@itechws.com, marketing@itechws.com

iTech Workshop Private Limited

786-646-0099 Ext 1001

www.itechws.com, www.expediumrcm.com

iTech Workshop, a leading Healthcare RCM Solution vendor with a special focus on delivering affordable secure Web-based EMS/Ambulance Billing Software and Revenue Cycle Management Services to EMS, Ambulance Agencies & other healthcare practice announces native NEMSIS v3.4.0 support to its expEDIum Medical Billing Software v3.5.3. The solution also supports NEMSIS v2.2.1. expEDIum EMS Billing Solution is among a few billing applications that support latest NEMSIS v3.4.0 and it is available in affordable monthly subscriptions.

The expEDIum Medical Billing (eMB) Software is used by several EMS & Ambulance Providers across the USA for several years. With NEMSIS support, EMS & Ambulance Providers are able to streamline emergency & non-emergency transport billing & manage their revenue cycle better. Patient Care Record/Trip details in NEMSIS format can be imported to expEDIum EMS Billing Solution and hence eliminate any manual data entry by users. ePCR solutions can seamlessly integrate using secure Web APIs/SOAP APIs to streamline the billing cycle using NEMSIS v3.4.0 & NEMSIS v2.2.1 datasets, and can also build own UX/UI on top of our secure RESTful APIs.

Some eMB key features are:

• Three types of billing such as Insurance, facility/contracted payers and patient billing are supported.
• Patient database, patient ledgers, extensible patient demographic fields, robust patient search etc.
• Real time & batch Insurance Eligibility Verification (IEV).
• A customizable fee schedule.
• Manage own transport facility list.
• Trips/Claims can be imported from several data formats such as NEMSIS, 837P, CSV, XML, HCFA print image & more.
• Inbuilt ambulance specific claims validation rules & scrubbing.
• Claim Review feature can be enabled on demand.
• A robust claims search module that can use to filter and manage claims.
• User friendly claim rejection & denial management feature.
• Better secondary claims visibility and billing.
• Manage paper claims effectively.
• Automated ERAs reconciliation/auto posting.
• A robust patients' statement management module.
• Over 60 readymade reports & 30+ dashboards.
• All reports can be exported to excel, pdf or csv files.

Most of the ePCR solutions are likely to support NEMSIS data format as they are expected to share EMS data to National EMS database in this format. Several states are sending EMS data set using NEMSIS v2.2.1 that was implemented in 2006, and many states have already implemented NEMSIS v3.4.0. The NEMSIS version 3.4.0 will officially become the standard version from 1/1/2018 and there could be another major revision in March 2018 and would officially become the standard from 1/1/2019.

iTech delivers cost effective and easy to use standards, secure, Cloud based expEDIum Healthcare Billing Solution, Claims Processing Solution & Revenue Cycle Management Services to EMS/Ambulance Providers, Medical practices, Hospitals, Ambulatory Surgery Centers, Billing Service Bureaus, IPAs, ACOs, TPAs, ASOs, and MSOs. iTech has over 1000 providers directly or through partners. iTech is the leading vendor in the Public Health Clinic space in a State along with one of its EHR Partners and this integrated solution is being used in 11 states. The expEDIum Solutions are available at monthly subscription with affordable and flexible pricing model.

iTech, a leading Healthcare IT Solutions vendor with a special focus on delivering affordable and comprehensive Web-based Medical Billing & Practice Management Solution, Medical Claims Processing Solution and Revenue Cycle Management Solutions for small to medium sized healthcare practices, implemented a robust Patient Appointment Scheduling module to its expEDIum Medical Billing Software.

The Patient Appointment Scheduling module was built using latest web technologies and designed to effectively manage patient appointments and daily schedule of providers. This module is already available in production and thousands of appointments have been scheduled using this module.

A few feature of this module are as follows:

• Simple and user friendly interface to schedule & manage Appointments
• Users can add a new patient when scheduling an appointment or select from existing database
• Customize Appointment types & statuses at clinic level and assign a preferred color code
• A default Appointment duration can be configured at clinic level and provider level
• Each provider can configure own preferred color code, default appt. duration and set a specific duration for appointment types
• Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly and Agenda View of appointments together with Unit View and Timeline View/li>
• Appointments can be filtered using providers, appt types, clinic location, date range and more
• Appointment tracking/User Trail feature
• Reschedule appointments based on available future timeslots
• Block office hours for providers based on appointment types
• "Agenda View" shows several details of the patients and appointments including patient balance and Insurance eligibility history. Seamless real-time insurance eligibility of a patient or multiple patients (bulk) can be performed from Agenda view.
• Appointments can be exported to a csv or an excel or a pdf file and can be also printed directly.

Carl Thomas, Manager, Customer Service/Interfaces of MD-Reports said "Scheduling in expEDIum is a pleasure as we can quickly identify confirmed appointments, and look at all patients where eligibility has been verified. The day and the agenda view are extremely useful in managing day to day operations"

iTech's expEDIum Medical Billing (eMB) is a subscription-based comprehensive Web based Practice Management Software. This solution supports both CMS-1500 & UB-04 electronic & paper claims. A few main features of eMB are patient database, patient ledgers, claims import, claim history, claims search, claims validation, rejections & denials management, claims scrubbing, automated ERAs, EOBs, insurance eligibility verification, contracted payer billing, patient statement management feature, invoice, fees schedule, over 60 readymade reports, 30+ dashboards etc. The solution supports multiple healthcare specialties, also has very specific features for EMS/Ambulance billing and Public Health billing. An EHR / ePCR solution can seamlessly integrate using several web APIs to streamline the billing cycle and can build own UX/UI on top of RESTFul APIs.

iTech clients and partners are happy with this smooth and successful transition without any disruption to their workflow and cash flow. We don’t see any impact on payment cycle so far, no difference on the amount paid by payers to ICD-10 claims with equivalent ICD-9 claims with same procedure codes except a few codes. There is no dramatic changes on rejections and denials so far.

iTech solutions will seamlessly support General Equivalence Mappings (GEMs), also known as crosswalks, for cross walking and to perform comparative analytics between claims carrying ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes in the future. For now, however, a free, simple, standalone crosswalk MS Excel tool to convert ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM codes and ICD-9-PCS to ICD-10-PCS codes and vice versa is available as a free download at Downloads.

iTech’s expEDIum Solutions shall be supporting both ICD-9 and ICD-10 as long as it is needed.

iTech Solutions are hosted on the cloud and available for a monthly subscription. The solution supports both HCFA-1500 and UB-04 Claims on a single product.

Mr. Hari Gandham, Director Business & Product Development at MD-Reports, one of our EMR partners said "We are very pleased with the smooth transition of ICD9 to ICD10 by our Practice Management solutions partner, iTech. Our clients were adopted to this change with a stress free transition".

iTech Workshop Private Limited (iTech), a Healthcare IT Solutions Company with a focus on Medical Billing, Practice Management and Revenue Cycle Management Solutions for the US healthcare market, announced a partnership with MD-Reports.

Some of the key features of the integrated product include:

• All-in-one solution with the Office EHR and Surgery Center EHR
• Platform independent, Web based scalable billing solution
• Insurance eligibility verification
• ICD-9 & ICD-10, CPT, HCPCS code lookups and validation
• Claim History and Claim Tracking
• Advanced Reporting capabilities
• Transfer of Demographics from previous billing software
• Anesthesia Billing
• Clearinghouse connectivity through MD On-Line (MDOL)

iTech has a Subscription based Practice Management System and Medical billing software. This product includes v5010 support, connects to any clearinghouse selected by the clients, supports Insurance Eligibility Verifications and automated payment posting, among other features. EMR products can be integrated by using a secure web services interface, thereby providing an integrated EMR and PMS solution. iTech has over 400 providers on their software. With this partnership iTech expects to add additional 1000 providers.

MD-Reports achieved Ambulatory 2008 EHR certification and is ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 Certified. MD-Reports Suite offers complete and integrated reporting and documentation solutions for Medical Offices, Ambulatory Surgery and Medical Centres. MD-Reports is used by 1200 physicians and over 300 facilities located in the United States and Puerto Rico. MD-Reports has long been the clinical reporting system of choice for small to mid-sized Gastroenterology practices all across continental United States, and now with the partnership with iTech, clinical management will be complemented with practice management.

iTech’s Business Advisor, Mr. Ramesh Shastri said that “This partnership delivers a seamlessly integrated solution spanning EHR, PMS, Billing and Clearinghouse connectivity while completely satisfying compliance requirements. Net result is better visibility of claims, faster payments and cost savings, a win-win for our customers and our partnership”.

MD-Reports’s CEO, Mr. Srikanth Gosike added, “It is our commitment and vision to provide complete EMR and Practice Management Solutions with seamless data flow across all functions of a medical practice. By partnering with iTech and integrating with MD-Reports, we have achieved this goal.”

iTech Workshop Private Limited (iTech), a Healthcare IT Solutions Company with a focus on Medical Billing, Practice Management and Revenue Cycle Management Solutions for the US healthcare market, announced a new version of their expEDIum Medical Billing SaaS product. eMB v2.1 is integrated with Patagonia Health's EMR and the combined offering that is "easy to learn" is already signed up by several public health clinics and several more in the pipeline in the state of North Carolina.

Some of the key features in eMB v2.1 include:

• Support for Atypical IDs that are used when filing electronic claims to Medicaid.
• Sliding Fee Schedule (SFS) programs, relevant filters and reports.
• Support for SFS details at claim level.
• Cash Postings for SELF pay and Program Summary Reports.
• Support for Confidential Claims.
• Cost settled and Cost absorbed reports from Public Health Departments.

iTech has a Subscription based Practice Management System and Medical billing software. This product includes v5010 support, connects to any clearinghouse selected by the clients, supports Insurance Eligibility Verifications and automated payment posting, among other features. EMR products can be integrated by using a secure web services interface, thereby providing an integrated EMR and PMS solution.

Patagonia Health is a provider of an integrated EMR and PM solution for Public Health, Behavioural Health, Federally Qualified Health Clinics and medical practices including many specialties. The "Apps" based EMR product easily adapts to fit each user workflow. Patagonia Health solutions provides an integrated EMR + PM + billing and Clearinghouse all for one simple low monthly subscription fees.

iTech's Business Advisor, Mr. Ramesh Shastri added that "This is great step forward in the direction of providing a 'one stop' solution for our customers. Additionally they get a 'best of breed' solution on which getting up to speed is quick".

Patagonia Health's CEO, Mr. Ashok Mathur added "Using state of the art apps technology, we are excited to provide software solutions which exactly meet local public health department needs. Counties, using Patagonia Health federally certified EHR, have received federal EMR incentives".

iTech Workshop Private Limited (iTech), a Healthcare IT Solutions Company with a focus on Medical Billing, Practice Management and Revenue Cycle Management Solutions for the US healthcare market, announced a partnership with MAXimize Inc.

Some of the key aspects of this partnership are:

• MAXimize Inc will use iTech's expEDIum Medical Billing solution in a subscription model for their billing services with several EMS agencies as their clients.
• MAXimize Inc will provide local training and act as a reference for the new EMS billers that are added on iTech's expEDIum Medical Billing solution.
• iTech will provide MAXimize Inc with any referrals for billing work from EMS agencies.
• iTech to work with a leading Emergency Medical Services EMR product in providing an integrated EMR + PMS + Medical Billing product and work with MAXimize Inc in taking this to the market.

iTech has a Subscription based Practice Management System and Medical billing software. This product includes v5010 support, connects to any clearinghouse selected by the clients, supports Insurance Eligibility Verifications and automated payment posting, among other features. EMR products can be integrated by using a secure web services interface, thereby providing an integrated EMR and PMS solution.

MAXimize Inc focuses on providing billing services for EMS agencies nationwide. They have over 30 years experience in ambulance, clinic, & specialty hospital billing with one of the lowest service fees in the industry. As Ambulance billing is very difficult in a constantly evolving industry with new Federal and State guidelines and greater legal issues, Ambulance Agencies need a partner like MAXimize Inc in increasing their revenue.

iTech's Business Advisor, Mr. Ramesh Shastri added that "This partnership brings a superior and well integrated EMR + Billing solution to an important segment of the health care industry - EMS Agencies. It fulfils our promise of lowering costs for patients and improving revenue cycle management for service providers".

MAXimize's President & CEO, Ms. Billijean Hobson added "We expect a tremendous growth opportunity utilizing this new software. Easily expanding client base without additional staffing costs and the time savings alone has made this a tremendous alliance".

iTech Workshop Private Limited (iTech), a Healthcare IT Solutions Company with a focus on Medical Billing, Practice Management and Revenue Cycle Management Solutions for the US healthcare market, announced a partnership with Patagonia Health.

Some of the key aspects of this partnership are:

• Patagonia Health will offer this integrated product to small physician practices and behavioral health agencies in a monthly subscription model.
• iTech will resell an integrated Patagonia Health EMR product that includes iTech’s expEDIum Medical Billing built into a seamless single solution.

iTech has a Subscription based Practice Management System, and Medical billing software. EMR products can be integrated by using a secure web services interface, thereby providing an integrated EMR and PMS solution. The expEDIum Medical Billing product includes v5010 support, connects to any clearinghouse selected by the EMR vendor, supports Insurance Eligibility Verifications and automated payment posting, among other features.

Patagonia Health focuses on EMR solutions for small physician practices and behavioral health agencies. Their product adapts to a practice’s workflow, delivering maximum efficiency. They are installed at several practices through out the USA.

iTech’s Business Advisor, Mr. Ramesh Shastri added that, “We believe this partnership will deliver significant value to our customers. A seamlessly, integrated EMR and Medical Billing solution will go a long way in lowering costs, increasing efficiency, and improving revenue cycle management for the practices we support.”

iTech Workshop Private Limited (iTech), a Healthcare IT Solutions Company with focus on Medical Billing, PMS and Revenue Cycle Management Solutions for the US healthcare market, announced a partnership with NexTrust, Inc.

Some of the key aspects of this partnership are:

• iTech reselling NexTrust's BillFlash document services
• BillFlash support for iTech's Patient Statement format

iTech has a Subscription based Practice Management System, and Medical billing software. EMR products can be integrated by using a secure web services interface, thereby providing an integrated EMR and PMS solution. The expEDIum Medical Billing product includes v5010 support, connects to any clearinghouse selected by the vendor or the client, supports Insurance Eligibility Verifications, Patient Statements, and automated payment posting among other features.

BillFlash users can save time and money by eliminating paper handling in-house. Practices must shift from relying on insurance payments to reliance on patient payments as the patient responsibility is expected to increase to 30% of the total practice revenues according to industry reports. Dan Stead, Director Business Development, NexTrust said, "We are extremely pleased to have been selected by iTech to provide patient statement services to their customers. BillFlash provides a professional, cost-effective alternative to in-house printing by eliminating paper and increasing patient payments."

BillFlash leads the industry in no-fee customization, design effectiveness, online management features, ease of enrollment and use, and total value.

iTech's Business Advisor, Mr. Ramesh Shastri added that "iTech partnership with Billflash will reduce paper handling on the clinic and billing side thereby lowering costs and improving accuracy; the winners will be Practices, Billers and Patients".

iTech Workshop Private Limited (iTech), a Healthcare IT Solutions Company with focus on Medical Billing, PMS, HIPAA, X12N, Direct Payer Connectivity, Electronic Claim Life Cycle and Revenue Cycle Management Solutions for the US healthcare market, announced a partnership with Exchange EDI.

Some of the key aspects of this partnership include

• iTech reselling Exchange EDI real time and point-of-care patient cash flow management products such as Direct Quote and e-Cashiering.
• Providing seamless Insurance Eligibility and Benefits verifications from iTech’s expEDIum Medical Billing solution using Exchange EDI’s Eligibility Gateway that provides coverage for over 400 public and private payers representing approximately 85% of the covered lives in the US.
• Provide an expEDIum Eligibility Portal product that uses Exchange EDI’s Eligibility Gateway.
• Providing seamless electronic claims submission from iTech’s expEDIum Medical Billing solution using Exchange EDI’s Direct Claims clearinghouse services.

iTech has seamless Insurance eligibility verification where users can perform either batch verifications or real time verifications of Insurance eligibility from the Patient Demographics module. iTech has integrated eligibility verification with the appointment scheduler module too wherein real time verification can be performed on the fly when an office visit is being scheduled for a new patient or an existing patient. iTech’s expEDIum Medical Billing solution and expEDIum Eligibility Portal are available through its’ secure SaaS model for an affordable monthly subscription. A future upgrade to their products shall have support for ICD-10 and HIPAA v5010. Remote demos can be requested from iTech’s website.

B. P. Fulmer, Managing Partner, Exchange EDI stated, “Exchange EDI is very pleased that iTech selected Exchange EDI as its partner to deliver a set of patient cash flow management products. Direct Quote is designed to deliver the most effective technology.”

iTech’s CEO, Mr. Siva Narayanaswamy added that “iTech believes this partnership would help us both reach out to wider healthcare audience and continue contributing to reduction of billing, insurance related administrative costs.”

iTech Workshop Private Limited (iTech), a Healthcare IT Solutions Company with special focus on Medical Billing, HIPAA, X12N, Direct Payer Connectivity, Electronic Claim Life Cycle, Revenue Cycle Management Products and Solutions for the US healthcare domain, announces release of expEDIum Medical Billing (eMB) Solution v1.0 in a subscription (SaaS) model.

Some of the key features include:

• Built in “online validation” of claims rather than waiting for 24 or more hours waiting for claims to be validated.
• Denial Management including increased payment due to secondary insurance visibility [In one case with 7 doctors with 900 claims that were eligible for secondary payments were not processed earlier as the information was not visible on the legacy system and customer lost revenue of about $45,000 in one year].
• Built in direct payer / CH connectivity providing seamless uploading of electronic claims and downloading of remittance advices and other reports. This reduces hours spent by billing administrators daily.
• “Provider direct” feature where providers can get to watch the status of their claims and look at analytics using a configurable dashboard using a secure logon.
• Increased claim life cycle visibility.
• Automated ERA processing reducing EOB data entry time.
• Built-in patient statements and collection agency reports features.
• EMR Integration - Secure and seamless connectivity from any existing web based or client-server EMR solution to hosted eMB solution.
• This platform price rolled into a single monthly subscription; no hardware/software or IT support costs and no capital expenditure. The pricing is for “all” available features without any "add-on" pricing for additional features (as in other equivalent products).

The solution is seen to provide generally over 50% more billing productivity compared to legacy systems due to more efficient processes and features. The average payment cycle time through this solution is seen to be generally about 11 days compared to legacy system’s 24 days (eMB's median of 9 days vs legacy’s 14 days, eMB's 80 percentile of 15 days vs legacy’s 27 days).

The solution can be hosted securely on a SaaS (Software as a Subscription) model over the Internet or the Intranet for a monthly subscription. The solution is available in a “mega-tenant” model and shall be available on a retail “multi-tenant” model in the future. A future upgrade to eMB solution shall provide support for ICD-10 and HIPAA v5010 seamlessly. A list of features is available at http://www.itechws.com/medicalbilling and demos can be requested through iTech's website.

iTech’s Business advisor, Mr. Ramesh Shastri added that “This is truly a game-changing platform that leverages the best in technology to deliver a comprehensive billing solution at a low price point that is a big step in the direction of reducing claims processing, administrative costs and making health care more affordable.”