MEDITECH
Long Term Care Administrative
product brief

MEDITECH offers comprehensive financial, administrative, and clinical features to facilitate a full continuum of service for extended care patients and residents. Our Long Term Care products are well integrated to maximize the exchange of information between applications. This extensive real-time integration minimizes the time required to enter crucial patient information and eliminates duplication of effort throughout the care continuum.

Our Long Term Care Administrative product meets all federal, state, and intermediary billing requirements. All resident account information is accessed from one centralized location, maximizing efficiency by providing a streamlined flow of resident demographic information. A series of user-defined reports allow you to view and trend financial and statistical information throughout the health care enterprise.

Admissions features include ability to:
• Assign visit-specific account numbers and unique medical record numbers upon admission/registration
• Collect and update demographic and insurance information, including changes in insurance coverage
• Capture multiple diagnoses upon admission/registration
• Quickly retrieve resident demographic information from previous admissions/registrations and update when necessary
• Capture Medicare, Medicaid, and dual bed certification, as well as track percent occupancy
• Track referrals and inquiries
• Bed management with large screen Bed Board
• Put beds on reserve
• Waitlist a pre-admission or an existing resident for a bed
• Assign rooms and beds electronically with error checking
• Capture daily care charges
• Track level of care changes
• Monitor leave of absence/hold days
• Track temporary vs. permanent beds
• Easily access Census reports, including census with RUGs detail.

Revenue Cycle features include ability to:
• Access all patient account information through one centralized routine
• Enter charges manually through a simple routine, or retrieve them automatically via other MEDITECH applications
• Easily enter payments, adjustments, and refunds
• Centralize billing and collections while still allowing for different pricing or payor requirements in a multi-facility environment
• Produce interim bills, age each interim bill, post payments to each interim bill
• Track exhausted benefits, including calculating and updating "days remaining" for full, co-insurance, and lifetime reserve days (if applicable)
• Set up system to automatically "rollover" to a new insurance order after resident has exhausted benefits
• Pre-bill self-pay patients for room and bed charges, and Medicaid patients for liability amounts
• Track Medicare Part B revenue and reimbursement
• Allocate revenue to the General Accounting by either primary insurance or Medicare Part B
• Electronically submit UB92's and HCFA 1500's
• Establish "Master" Contracts to facilitate the setup of reimbursement rules applicable to all residents with a particular insurance, i.e. Medicare, and calculate contractual adjustments at the time of billing
• Establish "Patient Specific" contracts to facilitate the setup of reimbursement rules applicable to a single resident and calculate contractual adjustments at the time of billing
• Generate statements on a monthly basis (or any user-defined cycle) that will summarize room and board charges
• Transfer billing data daily and monthly to MEDITECH's General Accounting product
• Transfer refund data to MEDITECH's General Accounting product.

Resident Trust Accounting features include ability to:
• Record deposits (social security, cash) and withdrawals (barber and beauty)
• Track fiduciary data including fiduciary demographics, expenses, assets, and sources of income
• Auto batch monthly sources of income such as deposit of social security check, cutting down on manual entry of these transactions
• Post interest which will automatically be dispersed across accounts based on residents' average daily balance
• Generate statements as well as reports showing account activity in summary or detail formats
• Transfer funds from Resident Trust to Resident's Self Pay balance in the Revenue Cycle product (optional).

Medical Records features include ability to:
• View a complete history of a resident's visits, along with a diagnosis associated with each visit
• Store demographics and insurance information for future retrieval
• Store a resident's picture so staff can view or print as needed
• Perform multiple functions for a list of patients through a single routine including signing out/returning records, processing incomplete records, and tracking correspondence requests.

Abstracting features include ability to:
• Code on-line using ICD-9 codes, CPT-4 codes, and modifiers
• Interface with a number of encoding systems
• Electronically submit state abstract tapes
• Create organization-defined case mix reports.

Integration with Hospital system
For enterprises that share functionality between the MEDITECH Acute Care software and the MEDITECH Long Term Care Administrative product, features include the ability to:
• Share demographics stored during prior visits, and link long term care visits with hospital visits all in one file
• Automatically create a long term care Pre-Admission upon Hospital discharge, based on discharge disposition
• Bill ancillary charges for orders processed at the Hospital from the long term care Revenue Cycle functionality
• Transmit LTC Revenue Cycle data to the hospital's General Accounting product
• Feed long term care / billing data to the hospital's General Accounting product.

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MEDITECH
Medical Information Technology, Inc.
MEDITECH Circle
Westwood, MA 02090
781-821-3000
www.meditech.com