Re: [MLUG] mlug?

[Rick Buford <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I was in Medical Records when the new software was implemented, and 
heard a lot these sorts of things. One of the biggest was that if 
Medicare is not billed promptly, within 30 days, then they simply won't 
pay. My supervisor at the time equated the loss to about 1.5 million PER 
DAY. And since I was supporting the coders, who are the ones that put 
translate the charts to billing codes, I know there were many days when 
they were simply unable to work. Couple that with the whole "risk 
sharing partnership" and the 150+ people that got shifted over to ITS 
just to "support" the new software AND the truckload of $$$ that got 
paid to consultants for suggesting that POS, written in VB, junk 
software, and it's not so hard to believe why the hospital can't get 
above water.

Rick

Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> Jonathan King wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > I doubt that migration to Exchange is anything that MLUG could have
> > influenced given that there was some fairly vocal opposition 
> expressed at
> > the time by some departments and faculty...who in practice do have at
> > least a bit more influence than your average sporadic undergraduate
> > organization.
>
>
>
> Actually I don't think faculty or departments have much influence.
> Neither do staff it seems.  Had faculty or staff been properly involved
> in the decision, I don't think we would have adopted Exchange.  I also
> think that we would not have adopted PeopleSoft (if you speak to
> secretarial staff on campus, they complain bitterly about this new
> accounting package that has been wholesale forced upon the whole
> university).  I am told from speaking to people on the Faculty Council
> that they were not involved with these decisions.
>
> These decisions all seem to come from the upper adminstration, and the
> way they arrive at their decisions seems mysterious.  These are the same
> people who control the hospital, which according to a recent state
> audit, lost about $12M over 2.5 years, because they did not file
> insurance claims in a timely manner, or properly preauthorise treatments.
>
>
>

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