Monday, September 14, 2009

CollaborateMD Launches New Medical Billing Software Release

CollaborateMD, a leading provider of hybrid SaaS practice management and medical billing software for physician offices and third-party billing services, today announced that the official 8.3 beta release is now available to all customers. Until today, only select customers were offered the beta software update. These customers included those who engaged with CollaborateMD via social media channels such as Twitter and Facebook, subscribed to the Company's blog, or attended the first annual CollaborateMD user conference this past May.

Patrick Mann, vice president of engineering, had this to say about the initial beta customer invitation process: "The phased approach we've implemented is essential to the success of this update. This process ensures our development and quality assurance teams have sufficient time for testing and modifications, while affording customer support and sales teams a longer runway with which to provide live training webinars and on-demand support during migration."

Unlike with traditional Software as a Service (SaaS) models which often centrally control upgrades without regard to customer readiness, CollaborateMD's hybrid SaaS software allows customers to control version updates in order to maintain operational stability. Upon installing the newest version, which is available at no additional cost, customers can easily migrate their operations from one version to the next with minimal interruption to their daily workflow.

The 8.3 update contains significant upgrades to existing service offerings and will include key features such as review services with high-level claim scrubbing, custom labels and superbills, enhanced scheduler tools, appointment confirmation, and the CollaborateMD User Portal.

The portal serves as an integrated web-based platform comprised of a suite of tools intended to augment the CollaborateMD practice management and medical billing software package. One such tool -- enhanced reporting -- provides a more flexible and scalable medium for business intelligence and reporting, allowing for users to build, export, and share rich content reports in a wide variety of formats. CollaborateMD forums, another feature set inside the portal, allow users to gather together, share ideas, collaborate on issues, promote product innovation, and increase awareness and understanding of product features. Additional tools including NPI registry and the 3M code viewer are useful for improving data integrity, resulting in fewer rejected claims and increased revenue.

"At the core of our Company vision is the promise to help customers optimize clinical and financial workflow for net profit improvement and enhanced patient care," commented Douglas Kegler, CollaborateMD founder and CEO. "The features in this release will provide the necessary tools our customers need to do exactly that, and serves as further assurance that we won't stop working until every customer is fully optimized for success."

About CollaborateMD

CollaborateMD has been helping medical practices and billing services optimize clinical and financial workflow for increased revenue and net profit improvement since 1999. Serving thousands of providers nationwide, CollaborateMD offers the healthcare industry a HIPAA-compliant, 100% Java, hybrid SaaS practice management and medical billing software application, which easily integrates with several leading EHR and laboratory solutions, and offers ePrescribing and secure patient-to-provider communications. For more information, visit CollaborateMD.com , Blog.CollaborateMD.com , or call 888.348.8457.

Medical Billing Software Users Boost CollaborateMD Philanthropic Contributions

CollaborateMD, a leading provider of hybrid SaaS practice management and medical billing software for physician offices and third-party billing services, has recommitted to their "Plant a Tree by Going ASP" program. The program is being conducted in cooperation with American Forests, the nation's oldest nonprofit citizen's conservation organization.

CollaborateMD kicked off the program in March 2008 by donating the funds needed to purchase 3,000 trees -- one for each active user on its system at the time -- to American Forests. This year, as contributions remain contingent on the Company's new customer acquisitions, 3,500 trees will be purchased to help offset their estimated carbon dioxide output per annum.



"Our Internet-based, hybrid SaaS solution helps to reduce carbon emissions by offering an environmentally safe alternative to server-based applications," commented Douglas Kegler, CollaborateMD president and CEO. "Planting trees to provide an effective means for absorbing and storing the carbon we emit is the next logical step in protecting and preserving our environment for future generations."

Since 1875, American Forests has been working to protect, restore and enhance the natural resource of trees and forests, planting trees in over 500 projects that span every state in the U.S. as well as 21 countries worldwide. Every dollar donated will pay to plant one tree in one of the many projects American Forests has underway and will help the organization reach its goal to plant 100 million trees by 2020. For more information on American Forests or to donate, visit www.americanforests.org .

PPJ Enterprise Acquires Medical Billing Service

PPJ Enterprise (PPJ) (PINKSHEETS: PPJE), a leader in proprietary automated healthcare multi-specialty provider reimbursement cycle technology and EHR development/information management digital system software for health care providers. PPJ Enterprises has focused all of its resources currently on the strategic business development of the medical billing firm PBS. The short term goals for PBS include increasing the number of clients and development of health information systems to provide cost effective support for medical record management and billing processes. PBS will utilize the expertise of PPJ Enterprise executives to attract future clients in the Anesthesia, Pain Management and/or Ambulatory Surgical Center fields.

The first marketing opportunity for PBS comes September 23 to 27, 2009 near Kansas City, Kansas. This Pain Management Training Conference is sponsored by The Society for Pain Practice Management (SPPM); PBS is confident that prospective Pain Management practice clients will attend. The SPPM Meeting Program states that not only will Pain Management Professionals be in attendance, but also invited are their office staff and medical billing decision makers. Attendance statistics are unknown, but SPPM is one of the well known and the oldest Pain Management Professional Association in the United States. There are only a handful of pain management medical billing specialists in the industry, so by addressing this target market, PBS will generate significant interest by attending this trade show.

The website is vital to online marketing and to generate prospective client interest. So PPJ Enterprises has been working with a contracted web developer to put together an interactive website for PBS prior to attendance at the SPPM conference. The PBS website will provide prospective clients information about their medical billing services, and examples of actual reimbursements for various anesthesia, pain management and ambulatory surgery center payments. In the future, this website will also allow established clients to view their medical billing accounts securely from the internet.

PPJ Enterprises has retained an RHIT consultant. Mrs. P. Madero (Madero), MBA, a registered health information technologist (RHIT), has over 9 years of medical billing and coding experience. An RHIT professional ensures the quality of medical records by ensuring completeness and accuracy of data entry, reviews and develops health information systems to analyze patient data, and is trained in coding diagnosis and procedures for medical insurance reimbursement. Madero's expertise will be valuable in effectively coding for new PBS clients, but will also be retained for further development of PPJ Enterprises' medical practice management system, Automated Biller.

PPJ Enterprise is currently trading under the symbol PPJE.PK

For more information please contact: PPJ Enterprise Management at (775) 348-5735, website: www.ppjenterprise.com , email: pm@ppjenterprise.com

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