Capario releases Portal 3.6 revenue cycle management solution

Capario, a leading provider of revenue cycle management solutions that connect healthcare payers and providers nationwide, today announced it has launched Portal 3.6, which includes the most significant advances to its exclusive online portal application to date.

“We are especially excited about the implementation of CCI/MNC (Correct Coding Initiative/Medical Necessity) edits. As a software vendor, this will allow us to further troubleshoot our clients' EDI issues without requiring them to wait for denials.”

"Capario's new Portal, release 3.6, is a major step forward. They really did their homework to deliver speed, power, and ease of use," said Phil Kilcoin, Chief Operating Officer for BMS Reimbursement, Inc., a member of the Healthcare Billing and Management Association (HBMA) and a beta tester of the new portal. "The new My Tasks function saves a great deal of time with repetitive tasks and reports. The new Claim Entry screen provides a simple and fast way to enter claim data from scratch or as a copy from previous claims. The new Analytics are particularly nice. The Processed Claim Report allows us to analyze our payer mix and 835 remits from one place; this is a major productivity improvement."

Portal 3.6 was developed based on user requests, extensive customer surveys and industry focus groups. Significant updates to the Portal include:

• CCI and MNC edits, including National Coverage Determinations (NCD) and Local Coverage Determinations (LCD)
• New "My Task" Inbox, which allows users to define and create personal task lists and save frequent searches
• Auto-generation of secondary claims, presented to the user in a work queue for approval and submission within minutes
• Enhanced denial management reporting providing easy to understand, actionable information to quickly identify errors and establish best practices for billing
• Direct data entry of claims
• Online correction of both clearinghouse and payer rejections
• Advanced search options, including remittance advanced search fields, status date-range search, procedure and diagnostic code, and advanced search options on rejections
• Improved ERA reporting including batch tracking and processed remittance tracking
• And fourteen other significant user interface updates, for improved ease-of-use and functionality

According to beta testers, Portal 3.6 has enhanced management efficiencies, improved first-time pass-through rates and accelerated the revenue cycle.

"The EDI Department at MacPractice is looking forward to the enhancements and new features included in version 3.6 of the Capario Portal," said Amanda Knott, EDI Team Lead for MacPractice, Inc., a beta tester of the new portal. "We are especially excited about the implementation of CCI/MNC (Correct Coding Initiative/Medical Necessity) edits. As a software vendor, this will allow us to further troubleshoot our clients' EDI issues without requiring them to wait for denials."

The updates included in Portal 3.6 are just the latest in a series of continued improvements and investments in the Capario portal. Capario has made recent updates to its infrastructure including a database upgrade to Oracle 11g Release 2, an upgrade to Symantec Storage Foundation v5.0 software and the purchase of two new Sun M3000 servers. These advancements have increased portal speed by more than 50 percent in all facets such as login, page-to-page navigation, returning search and query results, report generation and more.

"We've worked hard to develop all of these new features for our customer to further improve the accuracy of reimbursement and accelerate cash flow," said Andrew Lawson, president of Capario. "With Portal 3.6, our customers have access to an intuitive, easy-to-use interface that provides them with the actionable information they need, when they need it, all while streamlining their workflow."