FARMINGTON, Conn., May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- P2P Link, LLC -- the largest- volume Internet portal for automating medical billing and reporting for workers’ compensation -- announced today a strategic partnership with CCG Information & Healthcare Solutions, LLC, a leading provider of management services and Web-based software for occupational health and workers’ compensation health care providers.
Under the agreement, CCG and P2P Link will offer integrated Web-based products and services designed to speed the management of occupational health and workers’ compensation claims. Through the partnership, CCG’s CompTrieve software will enable medical providers, employers and payers to track in real time their workers’ compensation cases, as well as electronically submit all medical invoices, forms, and attachments associated with these claims.
“Those involved with the hands-on care of injured and ill workers are constantly looking for ways to reduce costs without reducing the quality of medical care. Together, our technological solutions can significantly reduce unnecessary administrative costs for all of those involved in the management of a workers compensation claim -- providers, payers, and employers,” says Robert Zeccardi, vice president of payer and provider relations at P2P Link.
CCG’s chairman, Marylynne Saccaro adds, “We have all witnessed the tremendous benefits that electronic billing and rapid communications have brought to the group health industry. Our partnership with P2P Link makes these long overdue benefits available to the workers’ compensation side of health care.”
According to P2P Link studies, in a paper-based environment the average payment turn-around is more than 70 days, with a bill rejection rate of over 25 percent. Medical providers using a combination of CCG’s data and decision- management tools and P2P Link’s claim processing, however, could see the average turn-around time cut in half: under 30 days with a rejection rate of less than 5 percent.
The CCG/P2P Link partnership enables health care providers, workers’ compensation payers and employers to use automated, streamlined workflows to process data covering an injured worker’s entire continuum of care -- from the first report of injury and initial treatments, through follow-up visits with specialists, and rehabilitation, to electronic claim submission and billing.
CCG Information & Healthcare Solutions helps health care providers manage the complex information and programs associated with specialty occupational health and workers’ compensation. CCG offers two flagship software products: CCG’s RETURN and CompTrieve. CCG’s RETURN is a secure, turnkey, Web-based practice management system that interfaces with hospital information systems to capture data on occupational health and workers’ compensation patients being treated within that hospital’s network.
CompTrieve is a Web-based, real-time reporting and rapid-decision support suite providing its clients with access to clinical, compliance, financial and administrative data, to manage effectively occupational health and workers’ compensation care claims.
P2P Link’s technology represents a key advancement in automated billing by allowing virtually any health care provider to connect with their payers through the Web. Providers simply log on to the P2P Link Web site and regardless of which practice management software they use, upload bill and medical report files from their existing system. P2P Link then electronically edits these bills and medical reports to assure completeness and delivers them to payers for processing and payment. P2P Link’s services are designed to eliminate common errors, such as missing information and claim numbers, which would otherwise cause bills to be rejected or processing to be delayed, resulting in more prompt consideration of the claim by the payer and efficiencies in staffing the billing and collection process.
Says Saccaro, “Electronic billing represents a tremendous opportunity for health care providers who have long struggled with the high costs of the fragmented, manual processes required to treat and process workers compensation cases. These providers can now significantly expedite and improve the accuracy of their workers’ compensation bill submissions and receive payment that much sooner. Our medical provider customers can capture higher yields and additional rapid cash returns.”
About P2P Link
P2P Link LLC, based in Farmington, Conn., provides electronic billing and reporting services for workers’ compensation insurance payers and medical service providers throughout the country. The company also has an office in Aurora, Ill. For further information on P2P Link, medical service providers and payers should call 866-450-3898 or visit P2P Link on the web at http://www.p2plink.com/.
About CCG Information & Healthcare Solutions
CCG Information & Healthcare Solutions, LLC, based in San Francisco, offers turnkey and integrated information technology and comprehensive service solutions to health care providers focused on growing their current market share position, while concurrently raising the level of health care services they deliver to their workers’ compensation clients. For further information on CCG Information & Healthcare Solutions call 800-867-6297 or visit CCG on the web at http://www.compcaregroup.com/.
P2P Link, LLC
CONTACT: Marnie Goodman of P2P Link, +1-860-547-3898; or MarylynneSaccaro of CCG Information & Healthcare, +1-415-298-7742
Web site: http://www.p2plink.com/
