C/Point

Consistent and Compliant Charge Calculation for Hospital-Owned Clinics

With rapidly changing healthcare regulations, there is, understandably, a growing concern of RAC and payer audits in the area of outpatient care. Picis LYNX C/Point^® delivers value with a consistent and compliant facility visit level (E/M score) calculation, infusion services charge capture and procedure charge capture for hospital-owned clinics, including support for administration of chemotherapy agents. In the challenging climate of fiscal austerity, healthcare organizations require tools to offer value in multiple ways. C/Point responds to the challenge with flexible deployment options, an open application programming interface (API) that preserves investment in existing systems, post-implementation performance monitoring and the certainty and confidence that comes with a proven methodology.

Improving Compliance. Achieving Consistency. Boosting Confidence

Based on the model of E/Point emergency department visit level charging application, C/Point applies a presenting problem-based methodology which accurately captures services and resources used in hospital-owned clinics. While many clinics simply replicate the physician level charging process to come up with the facility charge, the goal of C/Point is to minimize risk so it broadly incorporates OPPS guidelines for entire outpatient charging spectrum. With C/Point you get the power of certainty.

C/Point key features include:

• Consistency and compliance. Calculates the facility visit level using a methodology that is compliant with the 11 OPPS guidelines outlined by CMS and supports a comprehensive outpatient charging compliance strategy.
• Infusion and injection service charging. Prompts users for complete information and automatically calculates the appropriate charges for all infusion and injection services
• Chemotherapy Agent Support. Updated drug formulary and intuitive user interface to support the complex rules for the administration of chemotherapy agents
• Ease of use. An intuitive interface and, minimal data entry requirements to  facilitate rapid adoption by users.
• Procedure charge capture. Charges associated with procedures provided to the patient can be captured and sent to the hospital’s billing system.
• Observation visit level. Assigns an appropriate observation visit level.
• Patient log. Populated by the ADT interface; displays patients, demographic information, presenting problem and charging status.

Flexible and Scalable Deployment
C/Point is constructed with a scalable application architecture that accommodates a single hospital to a large Integrated Delivery Network (IDN). Our flexible deployment options do not require any special adjustments to existing IT infrastructure.

• Web-based: Users access C/Point directly with a wide selection of supported browsers
• Integrated: Users interact with existing systems; C/Point’s features are utilized in the background with our open API.

Preserves Existing Investments
LYNX clients often have specialized, existing software and systems. C/Point helps preserve your organization’s investment in current systems by offering an open API for the seamless exchange of information. Your organization can continue to use existing software and reap the compliant and consistent revenue capture capabilities of C/Point.

Audit Protection
C/Point’s algorithms are developed and managed by an experienced team of compliance experts. LYNX will stand behind its products in the event of a payer audit.

Best in Class Performance Monitoring
LYNX performance monitoring is peerless in the healthcare industry.  While many vendors offer a reporting package with their solution, we distinguish ourselves from the competition by providing performance monitoring BEFORE and AFTER the sale.