Western Communities Family Practice Associates and MedicsElite:
Managing the Practice has Never Been Easier!
Western Communities Family Practice Associates (WCFPA) is a large, very-high-volume practice serving patients across Palm Beach County in Florida. Fifteen physicians treat hundreds of patients per week at the WCFPA location in Wellington. The practice is so large that a separate Billing and Administrative office is located off-site in Royal Palm Beach.
Patients are not seen in the RPB office, but what is seen is a staff of very knowledgeable, sharp, and seasoned medical administrative professionals who run the "nerve center" of WCFPA. This is WCFPA's Center of the Universe—their Situation Room. WCFPA's business operations are handled right here, and the system relied upon to run those operations – WCFPA's extensive practice management needs – is MedicsElite from Advanced Data Systems.
Tracking the business needs of a practice this size might be a daunting task for other systems. However, with MedicsElite, functions such as EDI for electronic billing, automatic reconciliation (saving hours, and even days, of manual posting time), claim tracking, and insurance verification are painless, accurate and fast. Hundreds of thousands of claims are submitted yearly by WCFPA through their MedicsElite system. These include claims to Medicare and Medicaid, as well as to hundreds of commercial carriers.
ADS clients are submitting millions of claims annually through their ADS systems!
Linda McGill WCFPA Practice Administrator has an ongoing admiration for MedicsElite. "MedicsElite makes running this practice as easy as it can be. The system is in control of just about every aspect of the practice's business side."
"Management Reports are flexible, dynamic, and simple to produce," says Karen, WCFPA Billing Manager. "The built-in audit trail helps us track edits, and other users' work. There are just so many features in MedicsElite, and we use them all."
WCFPA also uses the MedicsElite Appointment Scheduler for all of their fifteen providers. "The Appointment Scheduler is an incredibly powerful tool to help us manage appointments. When you are juggling the schedules of fifteen doctors, the scheduler had better be robust and user-friendly, and the MedicsElite scheduler is exactly that," notes Lorraine, WCFPA's office manager.
Linda makes the comparison with their former system: "MedicsElite has brought a whole new world of information to this ever-growing practice. And ADS as a company is great! ADS provided excellent on site training and a data conversion from our old system to help smooth the transition to MedicsElite." She adds, "You might think a system with 35 workstations and so many users would either become slow or have lots of technical difficulties. On the contrary, the system is fast and technical difficulties are virtually non-existent. And whenever help is needed, the Support Departments at ADS are top-notch."
"If your practice is looking for a first-time system, or is seeking to replace an existing one, ADS and MedicsElite are definitely the way to go. I'd recommend the ADS and MedicsElite combination for any size practice and any specialty."
Linda is correct: solutions from ADS are excellent for any size practice, from the single provider, single user system to large practices such as WCFPA.
The comments by Linda, Karen and Lorraine are greatly appreciated. Of course, this is definitely a two-way street: ADS values its partnership with WCFPA, and with all of its thousands of clients.
In addition to MedicsElite for practice management, the ADS family of solutions also includes MedicsDocAssistant for electronic medical records (EMR) software, and the MedicsRIS Radiology Information System (RIS).
Please click here for more information or call us at 1-800-899-4237, extension 2046, to discuss how we can also assist with your practice's automation needs!
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