Sentry Data Systems Announces Claims Guardian(TM)
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DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Sentry Data Systems, Inc.
announced Claims Guardian(TM), a new module for its SentinelRCM(TM) Hospital
Pharmacy and Revenue Cycle Management application. Claims Guardian is
designed to help hospitals quickly and easily examine their bills for unusual,
missing, or errant charges that may affect reimbursement from all payors.
"We believe that automatically matching actual procurement activity to billing
activity is critical for establishing visibility into the financial operations
of any hospital," said Travis Leonardi, President and Founder of Sentry Data
Systems. "Claims Guardian leverages our core business intelligence platform
that enables end-to-end data capture which is essential to managing the
revenue cycle."
Building on Sentry's experience with pharmacy revenue cycle management and
claims data, Claims Guardian provides visibility into hospital claims which
are examined by payor, categorized by risk and presented to Finance for
review. Relevant information on costs, patient classes, physicians involved,
and past activity are all provided to the reviewer in one location where
adjustments can be made.
Claims Guardian provides the following:
-- Stratification of hospital claims based on benchmarks and published
coverage guidelines, and identification of outliers categorized by
risk.
-- Identification of missed billing opportunities based on identifying
"orphan" charges and mapping inconsistencies.
-- Documentation of actual invoice costs matched to submitted charges on
claims.
-- Automated flagging of fluctuating reimbursements for procedures by
payor, provider, and location.
-- Examination of outbound claims for areas where hospitals can
substantiate compliance with published quality indicators.
All of this information is available via executive dashboards that illuminate
activity, providing key contract performance indicators to serve as a basis
for renegotiation of payor contracts.
As a module for Sentinel RCM, Claims Guardian operates on standard claims
formats and is designed for integration with existing billing systems and
claims scrubbers. More information can be found online at www.SentryDS.com.
About Sentry
Sentry Data Systems, Inc. offers healthcare business intelligence technology
solutions that address a variety of operational, workflow, compliance, and
financial challenges found within hospitals and pharmacies. These products
include the hospital pharmacy management application Sentinel RCM(TM) (Revenue
Cycle Manager), pharmacy transaction processing platform Sentrex(TM), and the
healthcare business intelligence application HealthBIT(TM) (Business
Intelligence Technology). These tools run on top of Sentry's healthcare cloud
computing platform, Datanex(TM), which is available to independent software
developers and other healthcare entities.
Headquartered in Deerfield Beach, FL, Sentry Data Systems, Inc. currently
serves clients in over 30 states and its systems process millions of
healthcare transactions per day. More information can be found online at
www.SentryDS.com .
NOTE: Sentinel RCM, Sentrex, HealthBIT, Datanex, Claims Guardian and any
additional Sentry marks herein are trademarks of Sentry Data Systems, Inc.
Product specifications subject to change at any time without prior notice. (C)
Sentry Data Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
SOURCE Sentry Data Systems, Inc.
Melissa Colucci of Sentry Data Systems, Inc., +1-800-411-4566,
mcolucci@sentryds.com
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