Enables you to maintain employee HR records, including attributes such as licensing and certifications. The system proactively alerts HR to expiring attributes and verifies each worker against the OIG exclusion database. The system can be configured to allow your workers to connect and manage their availability, print their schedules and claim open schedules based on security settings.
Allows you to accept client referrals as well as track referral sources, the number of admits and unaccepted referrals from each source.
Enables you to admit a client clinically, including specifying diagnosis, medication profile, plan of care and physician orders. The system automatically tracks schedule through the physician orders and warns when not in compliance.
Retrieve information quickly using a smartphone with a data plan such as an iPhone, Windows Mobile Phone or Blackberry. This allows a franchise owner, manager or on-call employee to quickly retrieve information wherever they may be, without having to use a laptop or desktop computer.
Real time, one-step clinical compliance checking ensures that the orders sent from the physician are the same ones scheduled and serviced.
Physicians can actively manage the care of their patients by logging in securely to review, modify and sign a plan of care. They can also view medication profiles and view any drug interactions or side effects.
Centrally manage payer and bill rate maintenance in real-time. Implement payer-specific billing rules and track multiple authorizations for clients with multiple payers. Automatically determine which schedule should be billed to which payer based on remaining authorization. Payer setup also allows financial personnel to determine the billed payer instead of a scheduler. Every few minutes, the system automatically recalculates and tracks compliance between payer authorizations and schedules.
Fully integrated shift differentials including weekend and holidays to make billing and payroll manageable. Supports range rates for vendor management, tracks employee availability for staff scheduling and allows quick access to all active worker availability calendars by discipline. Allows a Hospital to request needs online and check on the status of staffing requests at any time.
ContinuLink interfaces with the SanTrax telephony system from SanData. The system allows your workers to punch in and out at the client's home using the telephone. This minimizes the time slip verification for payroll. For intermittent business, it enables entering a visit with the correct times into the schedule to minimize data entry. The SanTrax telephony service is an optional service offered by SanData at preferred rates for agencies using ContinuLink.
The integrated Point of Care system allows your skilled caregivers to perform bedside assessments electronically with real-time clinical edits. The software allows you to perform full assessments, build Plans of Care, perform medication profile entry and management. It allows the nurse to assess a patient and after assessment specify the client's schedule of needs, build a Plan of Care and have it ready for the Physician to review, modify and sign online. The Point of Care software integrates seamlessly with ContinuLink because it was designed and developed by the same team.
For agency owners, the Point of Care software completes the automation of home care business processes and reduces paperwork. If you are a Medicare-centric agency, it allows you to get faster reimbursement, assures clinical compliance and ensures that you are well positioned for the new world of pay-for-performance. Nurse visits are electronically captured and integrated support for your clinical pathways will help your agency outcomes.
Enables easy scheduling using a color-coded calendar format (daily, weekly and monthly, based on your business/treatment weeks). All employees can be scheduled by client, facility, department or unit - all from a single screen. It also allows recurring schedules to be entered with a few simple clicks of the mouse and allows toggling of the calendar between client view, unit view and worker view. Provides for quick totaling of the hours on schedule view as well as the difference in the number of hours from the same month in the previous year. And most importantly, it shows with one quick glance whether a schedule had been billed - and if payment has been received - with easy to understand, color-coded graphics.
Calculates your entire payroll - including regular hours and overtime gross amounts - by employee. It interfaces with payroll systems such as ABRA, AccPac, ADP, MAS 90, MAS 500, Lawson, Microsoft Great Plains/Dynamics, and with some limitations, to Intuit QuickBooks and Peachtree. New interfaces to payroll packages are always free and can added at your request. The payroll system also provides worker-centric reports that can be included in the paycheck envelope to display all the services the worker is being paid for in a given week.
Supports billing on UB92, UB4, HCFA 1500 and Invoices (Self-Pay, Co-Pay, Co-Insurance and Facility). Fully supports electronic billing using HIPAA-compliant 837 formats to many commercial, government payers and clearing houses using direct electronic billing. Fully tracks issues that account for bills not to be issued, and fully ages and reports on unbilled revenue. Co-Pay bills are released automatically at the same time as your payer bills. Automatically holds and issues monthly bills so you do not have to manually consolidate weekly bills into one monthly bill. Comprehensive accounts receivables system built in with several views of your A/R aging.
Interfaces with popular general ledger packages such as MAS 90, MAS 500, Lawson, Microsoft Great Plains/Dynamics, Cyma, Intuit QuickBooks and Peachtree. Interfaces with new G/L packages are always free and are added at your request.
Allows you to post payments to A/R, re-bill secondary payers and fix incorrect billing. Allows one-step, real-time re-billing of coinsurance to the patient.
System maintains tickler lists and logs of contacts between payers and collections staff. System automatically inserts reminders for collections staff to follow up with a payer if a payment has not been received within a customizable number of days from when the bill was sent.
Includes the full OASIS assessment and PPS billing to Medicare and other PPS payers. ContinuLink provides an industry unique queue-based Medicare billing system to ensure compliance with billing rules, and provides a simple interface to fix any issues holding up billing.
Enables you to scan and store unlimited paper documents and photos, accessible from anywhere you can access ContinuLink. For instance, you can store time slips, nurse notes, wound images, worker HR records, staffing credentialing packages and client responsibility forms. This allows you to have a secure electronic copy of all your agency paper files for access anywhere, anytime - and helps you comply with HIPAA requirements for maintaining backup copies of all information in the event of a disaster. All you need to start using document management are inexpensive scanners or cameras locally attached to the computer(s) in your agency.
