I think we can agree the common ingredients in most Thanksgiving dinners are: turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, dinner rolls and pumpkin pie. It is more than just a turkey dinner and Iridium Suite is more than just a medical billing software program.
Like the Thanksgiving dinner basic menu, current medical billing software has many standard functions:
- Patient account files that store pertinent billing submission information like insurance policies, authorization information, and inpatient stay dates.
- Ability to check patient real time eligibility, submit electronic claims and receive electronic remittance advices.
- Generating secondary paper claims, patient statements, and important financial reports.
The secret to making the basic dinner something special is those family recipes. My mother had a very specific way to prepare the turkey. By baking it overnight it was done by morning, ensuring it was cool enough to slice for dinnertime and the oven was free for other items, like yummy pies and the homemade dressing. Dressing is the term for stuffing that’s not stuffed. There were no short cuts with boxed stuffing or pre-packaged bread crumbs in my house. We used toasted bread torn into pieces. 
Iridium Suite practice management software has those “special ingredients”
that improve on billing system basics. Below are some of our secrets. You can see all the ways Iridium Suite is not just a medical billing software program by contacting us for a free demo.
- Patient account files don’t only hold payer information but allow users to enter the exact effective dates which ensures the proper payer will be billed for services. With the authorization, as each service is utilized, the number of remaining services is reduced. This function coordinates with the claim scrubber which will notify users if a claim does not have a necessary authorization prior to submittal. That scrubber also prevents any IP charges from being submitted without the appropriate IP stay dates. All of these functions work to prevent claim rejections and denials.
- The integrated patient real time eligibility response can be used to create the patient policy information or the entire patient account eliminating manual entry of this data. Once electronic claims are submitted, the system keeps a record of the clearinghouse and payer responses. It notifies users of rejections which facilitates the quick correction of erred claims. With almost no user intervention, electronic remittance advices are retrieved and adjudicated automatically by the system.
- Your secondary paper claims will have a system generated primary insurance explanation of benefits automatically attached. It is no longer necessary to make paper EOB copies. Iridium Suite users can opt to utilize the paper claim and patient statement mailing service that is offered for a small additional fee. Routine financial reports can be scheduled to run automatically by the system and emailed directly to the appropriate parties.
There are also those special family favorite dishes that make each of our holiday meals unique. Around my house, it was the time we got to ask mom to make the dishes that we seldom got the chance to eat. For my brother: homemade baked macaroni and cheese. For my sister: grandma’s famous chicken and dumplings. Someone in your family may demand the green bean casserole or maybe like a good friend of mine your menu includes chitterlings and collard greens.
At Medical Business Systems we believe in making your database fit the uniqueness of your practice. Several areas of the software are completely customizable like payer claim formats and practice specific claim scrubber rules. We designed our medical billing software for Mac, Windows and Linux operating systems for your ultimate flexibility with software and hardware.
