PMI Consultants to Eye Care now available to help AOA members with medical record-keeping, coding, claims, fee schedules, insurance company challenges
March 24, 2011The AOA is excited to announce that all products and services of PMI, LLC, Consultants to Eye Care, are now available to AOA members at significant savings. PMI was formed in 1989 to assist optometrists and their staffs to become more comfortable with the challenges related to medical record-keeping, choices of codes, claims submission, fee schedules, and dealing with insurance companies. With PMI’s assistance, hundreds of optometric practices have developed new fee schedules and internal protocols for better patient care and more accurate coding of visits and procedures.
PMI consultants Ryan Ames, O.D., Charles Brownlow, O.D., and Joyce Josie, LPN, confer with doctors and key staff regarding payer audits and insurance company contracting, provide internal, “friendly” audits of patient records, assist in redesigning medical record forms, case history forms, and route slips to aid in compliance with national rules for record keeping. PMI also offers preprinted forms for use in eye care offices, with each designed to improve the thoroughness and accuracy of medical records with the additional benefit of making it easier to choose codes correctly.
The national rules and regulations associated with medical records and coding continue to challenge all health care providers. With the assistance of PMI, hundreds of optometric practices have succeeded in creating better patient records for internal use, providing better patient care, better intra-office and inter-office communication, and more accurate coding for Medicare and other insurance claims.
PMI’s Web site, www.pmi-eyes.com, introduces all PMI services, including the two most popular: the PMI Chart Review Service and the PMI Fee Analysis. The Chart Review analyzes 10 patient charts for each doctor. PMI consultants check the accuracy of the choices of codes, while also providing suggestions for improving the medical record forms themselves, the thoroughness of recording, and the degree to which the records are compliant with national standards for record-keeping. The Fee Analysis creates a spreadsheet that permits doctors and key staff to compare the practice’s current fees with surveys of MDs’ fees, ODs’ fees, and Medicare-allowed charges. The process permits doctors to make adjustments to their fees, make additional comparisons and arrive at a new fee schedule that matches their concept of the values of their services.
PMI’s latest aid for eye care practices, the PMI VisitCoder™, is a handheld device that helps doctors and/or key staff to choose visit codes accurately by entering data points drawn from the patient’s record. In seconds, the key elements are entered for the case history, the physical examination and the medical decision-making, and the correct code is identified from either the 99000 or the 92000 series. In a minute or less, the route slip is completed and everyone gets back to taking care of patients’ eye care needs.
Through doctor and paraoptometric education and consulting, online and printed educational materials, PMI forms, email and telephone consulting, PMI VisitCoder™ and other services, PMI, LLC can enhance both your bottom line and your peace of mind.Go to www.pmi-eyes.com, and remember to provide your AOA member number to receive the special discounts.
