Oakbrook Terrace, IL – [February 17, 2020] Archways, a not-for-profit community behavioral healthcare provider, and Streamline Healthcare Solutions (Streamline) have partnered to move the South Florida healthcare agency from its current legacy system to one integrated electronic health record platform.
State Reporting for Behavioral Health: Deciphering the Alphabet Soup
If your behavioral health agency is using an electronic health record (EHR) system to measure outcomes and report data, you know that there are numerous reporting techniques.
Payers like Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers use these reporting techniques to measure client outcomes. This allows the payer either to provide bonus payments under incentive programs, or withhold payments for undesirable outcomes. In this way, healthcare systems are migrating from fee-for-service (FFS) to value-based payment (VBP) models.
Different reimbursement programs require different types of reporting. Unfortunately, the “alphabet soup” of acronyms for different reporting methods can be confusing and overwhelming. Let’s decipher some of these reporting types.
The Nord Center Selects SmartCare to Accommodate Their Multiple Levels of Care
Oakbrook Terrace, IL – [January 2, 2020] – Streamline Healthcare Solutions (Streamline) and The Nord Center of Lorain, OH, have recently formalized a partnership to supply the agency’s next EHR platform. Nord valued a multi-faceted, flexible application to meet their many levels of care including, outpatient, inpatient crisis stabilization unit, 24/7 crisis hotline, and mobile teams. SmartCare will also provide the ability to provide direct primary care services, if so desired in the future.
2020 – A Look At The Year Ahead
There’s never been a more dynamic and innovative time in the health and wellness industry, leading to the best treatment for clients. Many updates and adaptations have replaced archaic systems and processes, and created streamlined, efficient approaches that save time and cost. Providers are able to better serve their clients, and clients receive more personalized care and understanding. While endless changes have occurred in the last few years, we anticipate even greater new trends in 2020. From regulation changes to enhanced data access, exciting changes are explored in our look at the year ahead.
SmartCare EHR Chosen by SalusCare for Flexibility, Proficiency at Managing Florida State Reporting
Oakbrook Terrace, IL – [December 20, 2019] SalusCare, a not-for-profit community behavioral healthcare provider, and Streamline Healthcare Solutions (Streamline) have partnered to move the Southwest Florida healthcare agency from its current legacy system to one integrated electronic health record platform.
Streamline’s Year In Review: 2019’s Key Industry Changes
The healthcare industry has experienced dynamic changes in 2019, resulting in many advances for running a practice or facility with efficiency and enhanced tools for communication. From changes in legislation to key trends, Streamline Healthcare Solutions (Streamline) has explored the major breakthroughs and movements to offer a comprehensive look at the year in review. Legislation … Read more
How Technology Advances Impact The Internal Organization
Today’s technological advances are not only increasing the mental healthcare system’s overall efficiency, but are leading to better internal organizational development. As state requirements become more refined, the change to online record use is serving to revolutionize the data holding process and information sharing. The same technology is also offering parallel benefits within participating organization’s cultures and staff’s performances. To better understand the positive impact that technological changes make, we’ve explored how the data collected for your state’s requirements transform into benefits for your internal organization’s needs.
SmartCare EHR Reaches 40,000 User Milestone
Oakbrook Terrace, IL – [December 11, 2019] — Streamline Healthcare Solutions is proud to announce that the company’s user base, made up of a variety of health and human services professionals, has officially reached a milestone of 40,000 individual users across 26 states. New sales at Streamline have continually improved year over year. Streamline specifically works with multifaceted organizations that provide services at all levels of care, and contracting with outside providers to perform services. Streamline has been delivering web-based software for healthcare organizations to provide and coordinate all service delivery processes for over 15 years.
Indiana Behavioral Health Organizations Have the Ability to Transmit 837 Claims and 270/271 Batch and Real Time Eligibility Inquiries Through SmartCare EHR
Oakbrook Terrace, IL – [November 20, 2019] – Streamline Healthcare Solutions announced today they can successfully transmit both 837 claims and 270/271 eligibility inquiries through the SmartCare EHR platform for Indiana Medicaid. INXIX, Indiana State’s preferred vendor who completed the set up and testing process for Indiana Medicaid, required Streamline to complete several test runs for each client organizations business process. Commercial clearinghouses and payors are required to go through set up and testing processes as well. Streamline’s first Indiana client, Porter-Starke Services, was tested based on multiple scenarios of checking for eligibility of which all have been approved via INXIX.
The Importance of Value-Based Care in Behavioral Health
As the healthcare field evolves into a more efficient system, key changes allow for advances that are revolutionizing the industry. An innovative new value-based care model has expanded the focus to reducing costs, decreasing medical errors, and achieving better overall health for clients. Providers are increasingly turning to this value-based healthcare model in order to achieve value-based results.
Under this model, providers are rewarded for helping individuals reduce the negative impact chronic disease can have on a client’s life and the number of occurrences of chronic diseases. Rather than being paid by each service they prescribe or perform, they are rewarded based on the health of the client.
A value-based model can:
- Lower costs for clients
- Increase client satisfaction
- Offer reduced health risks
- Align prices with outcomes
- Lead to better overall health
This model is spreading through the primary care industry and while it’s had a positive impact, the behavioral health industry has been slower to adopt it.