Users' Conference 2008
Registration Now Open!
Join us this July for the 2008 PCC Users' Conference in Burlington, Vermont. This year's conference is packed with pediatric practice management education in a fun-filled learning environment. New this year, your free ticket to the Users' Conference for managing staff and providers gives you access to three conferences in one. The UC will kick off with a full Pre-Conference day of Partner Basic Training followed by three days of courses covering advanced Partner and practice management, coding education, and more! Your UC experience also includes admission to our annual Practice Management Conference where experts from around the country join us to tackle some of the most pressing Pediatric topics. And of course, the UC will be followed by our Big Bash dinner event at the Catamount Country Club, so make plans to stay and enjoy the festivities on Friday night, August 1! Register now!
2008 PCC Care Plans
PCC is committed to providing your practice with all the tools you need to run a healthy practice. We are pleased to offer you more services as part of your Care Plan, new additional features to make your plan the perfect fit, and exciting Partner updates for 2008! Start with Step 1 to review the list of services included in your plan and new services we've added this year. See Step 2 for the many additional features and packages available to you.
This year, we've also put together a list of ways you can get more out of your PCC Care Plan. Start taking advantage of PCC's new services right away with this list of tips on how you can access some of the most valuable services in your Care Plan.
PCC Receives KLAS Award for Highest Scores Ever
PCC is the proud recipient of the KLAS 10-Year Anniversary award for "High Scorer." The High Scorer award is given by industry-leading research firm KLAS Enterprises to the vendor with the highest overall score in their decade of provider rankings, with a high degree of confidence. PCC's Partner software scored 96.98 (out of 100) in 2005, earning us the High Scorer Award.
We also earned the highest overall score by any company in any category in the 2006 KLAS year-end report of health care information technology (HIT) vendors. This marks the second year in a row that PCC has has received higher scores than all other HIT vendors in the report. Rate PCC and keep us at the top of their list!
Read more about PCC's KLAS rankings.
PCC Expands Electronic Eligibility Payor Connections
PCC has added electronic eligibility verification to Partner for two new payors! You can now submit electronic eligibility requests to TN BCBS and TX BCBS. We hope to expand our eligibility offerings even more in 2007, under your 2007 PCC Care Plan.
With three ways to review your eligibility results (on the individual account, in an e-mailed report, or in the ECS Reports program), you'll know which patients need to provide updated insurance information before they even arrive for their appointments! To learn more about PCC's new eligibility services, contact the Pediatric Solutions Team at 1-800-722-7708, option 2, or send an email to the sales team.
Practices Must Use New ICD-9 Version 24 Codes to Avoid Claim Rejection
ICD-9 diagnosis and procedure codes are established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. As of October 1, 2006, you must be using version 24 of the ICD-9 codes from CMS. Your Partner Software will be automatically updated with the new code set prior to October 1. Claims submitted with invalid ICD-9 codes will be rejected by Medicaid and other payors.
PCC's Partner software checks your ICD-9 codes against CMS' new list of valid, HIPAA-compliant codes. Users are warned of non-compliant codes when posting charges and when making updates through the "correct mistakes" program to a code already posted. Partner again notifies users of claims containing invalid ICD-9 codes at the point of electronic claim submission. These claims are held for replacement with HIPAA-compliant codes before they can be rejected by the payor, saving your practice time and money.
PCC provides a plain text file of the new, complete, invalid, and revised codes to easily update your Partner tables.
