A year has passed since the HITECH Act within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act became law, with its enhanced protections of patient data and tens of billions of dollars to accelerate the adoption and use of electronic health records. What do you need to get done to be ready?

Medicare requires that secondary claims be sent electronically but many practice management systems can only produce a print image. Clients also have problems submitting secondary claims via the HCFA 1500 format because they do not provide enough informational fields for all the required secondary payer data. This case study explains ECP's solution that saves our clients from having to upgrade their practice management systems to stay in compliance with Medicare.