What Is Practice Management?
Practice management in Encompass™ has three main modules:
- Administration
- Front Office
- Claims Management
Most of your practice management settings are configured in Administration. These settings include:
- Practice information
- Claims information
- Providers and staff
- Security
- Clinic hours
- Product item types
- Contact lens products and prices
- Services and prices
- Scheduler preferences, office hours, resource schedules, services, and holidays
- Required patient profile fields
- Recall types
With Front Office, you can efficiently perform these tasks:
- Record patient demographic information
- Record patient insurance information
- Schedule and manage patient appointments and recalls
- Record patient prescriptions
- Create and modify orders
- Manage patient correspondence
- Process and bill claims to insurance carriers and patients
- Print reports
Claims Management allows you to quickly and efficiently process and bill claims to insurance carriers and patients. After receiving payments, you can easily process those payments. Additionally, Claims Management offers many reports that help you track and analyze your claims.