Efficiency

The powerful CDM management tool that puts you in control.

CCH ChargeMaster Pro operates as both a desktop application as well as an internet-based reference. It analyzes every line of code and suggests changes based on current, accurate data as well as top industry expertise. You then decide, based on your hospital’s specific needs and circumstances, how to process each suggestion. ChargeMaster Pro provides detailed reports summarizing findings and recommendations, which can be implemented on a line-by-line item basis, departmental basis or globally.

ChargeMaster Pro works in conjunction with ChargeMaster Comply, CCH’s online knowledge base. ChargeMaster Comply provides you all of the accurate data needed to maintain a clean CDM. It even sends you weekly emails alerting you to all coding changes and when they will go into effect, ensuring that you always work with the most recent regulatory information.

ChargeMaster Pro operates as both a desktop application as well as an Internet-based reference. It communicates online with the CCH ChargeMaster Comply knowledge base, ensuring that you always work with the most recent coding and regulatory information. Updates occur behind the scenes, with absolutely no disruption to your workflow.

Working with a copy of your current CDM, ChargeMaster Pro analyzes every charge code line item and makes recommended changes based on up-to-the-minute data. Your staff then decides, based on your hospital’s specific needs and circumstances, how to process the suggestion— accepting the change, marking it as pending or rejecting it. You can even add facility comments to each charge code. This allows your hospital to maintain an audit trail and keep a better historic account of changes and the rationale behind each, thus creating ongoing knowledge base.

The software features:

• Detailed reports summarizing findings and recommendations, which can be implemented on a line item basis, departmental basis or globally
• A "track changes" feature allowing you to create an audit trail of the changes made to your CDM
• "Roll-back" functionality that lets you restore a previous version of the CDM
• Acceptable code variances are stored in the system and can be applied with each new CDM file update
• Multi-level user access, so each user sees only the information they should
• Facility views giving you the ability to see similar departments in multiple facilities, thus enabling you to make "global" changes
• CDM files are accepted in almost any delimited format; CCH formats the file and uploads it to the system in 24-48 hrs
• CCH and CMI expert guidance and recommended coding changes
• The ability to set-up an unlimited number of users in the system

Best of all, ChargeMaster Pro's intuitive graphical interface makes it easy to operate. The program organizes its functionality into several "views" or sections, including: