Lytec Practice Management — Manage the Business Side
of Medicine
Lytec
is
a market-leading practice management system
that helps improve cash flow and increase office
productivity. Lytec covers all aspects of your
practice from comprehensive billing, scheduling and
accounts receivable management to automatic recall
tracking, document scanning and robust reporting.
Benefits:
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Improves productivity of the scheduling staff
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Simplifies patient accounting
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Speeds insurance billing and improves
reimbursement
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mproves collections and reduces accounts
receivable
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Tracks practice performance through multiple
reports
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Reduces administrative burden for physicians so
they can focus on patient care
Key Features
Scheduling:
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Schedules, moves or cancels appointments quickly and
easily
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Views appointments according to your office setup —
by day, week or resource
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Prints superbills
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Allows multiple bookings to minimize missed
appointments
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Alerts staff of patients’ co-payments and balances
due
Patient Accounting/Billing:
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Adds efficiency with all account information for
each patient on a single screen for convenient
access, entry, tracking and retrieval
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Simplifies daily book balancing using patient
daysheets
Easily applies patient payments with the payment
wizard
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Manages patient receivables with aging reports
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Tracks insurance authorizations and reminds you when
the authorized visits have run out
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Stores billing information for any health insurance
plan and assures accurate payer information with the
Carrier Import option
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Helps track and manage all your insurance claims
Prints standard CMS-1500 claim forms
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Tracks past-due payments to maintain timely and
accurate insurance billing
Integration with RelayHealth®
EDI services for faster claims processing and
improved reimbursement electronic data
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Prints professional patient statements with notes to
encourage prompt payment
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Pinpoints past-due balances
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Interfaces with BillFlash from McKesson partner,
NexTrust, for more efficient statement processing
Reporting:
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Identifies the trends of your practice through
diagnosis and procedure code analysis
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Tracks the profitability of your referring physician
network
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Summarizes information about the financial status
and service performance of the practice
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Analyzes the managed care costs for services
provided against the insurance reimbursement
received through contract services
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Compares the difference between charges billed to an
insurance company and the amount reimbursed from the
insurance company
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Tracks the number of inventory items you sell
Lytec Enhancements
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Statement enhancements:
A new “charge detail line” feature enables a charge
and its associated payments, adjustments and balance
to appear on one line, making patient statements
shorter and less confusing.
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Non-consecutive values filter on reports:
Users can select individual codes or ranges of
non-consecutive codes for reports, allowing
virtually any report to be produced with the exact
criteria desired.
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Patient Merge Utility:
A new utility allows users to merge two patient
records, combining charges, payments, appointments,
billing, history, patient notes, patient images and
A/R management notes.
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Billing status codes:
Practices can use the new “billing status code” to
address several business issues such as tracking
visit types, grouping claims together that need to
be submitted in paper form, or putting a cash code
on bills for patients who purchase services not
covered by insurance.
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Create charge from Appointment Scheduler:
The receptionist can now enter patient charges and
co-pay information from the Appointment Scheduler
screen, saving time.
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Show detail payments in Charges and Payments:
Billers are now able to view payment details
directly under the corresponding charge line item.
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Month- and year-to-date totals on financial reports:
Financial reports can now show month-to-date (MTD)
and year-to-date (YTD) totals, providing a clearer
picture of financial status.
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L
ocation and facility subtotals on financial
reports:
Users can now subtotal financial information by
location and facility codes, helping to better
analyze utilization of resources.
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Practice analysis subtotal by provider:
Multi-provider clinics can now run the Practice
Analysis report with subtotal information by
provider.
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Year-end patient payment report (tax report):
Lytec includes a new report showing a patient’s
payments by calendar year for tax-reporting
purposes.
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Prepayment activity zero balance suppression:
Under Reports/Patient/ Prepayment Activity, you can
now suppress any prepayment entries that have been
completely applied.
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Appointment template sharing:
Users can now create and/or edit a template for a
single resource and then share the template with
other resources.
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Patient Notes security and auditing:
Lytec includes security options to allow or
restrict users from viewing, adding, deleting and
modifying patient notes.
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Added fields to custom reports:
In Lytec, as many data fields as possible were
identified and added to custom reports for future
use.
Technical Requirements for Lytec
Workstation system
(recommended):
Equivalent to Pentium®
4 3.0Ghz processor or higher, 4GB of available hard
disk space, 2GB RAM, 32-bit operating system, and
DVD drive
Workstation operating system
(required):
Windows®
XP Professional SP2 or higher, Windows Vista™
Business, 32-bit operating system
Server system
(recommended):
Equivalent to Intel Pentium 4 3.6Ghz processor or
higher, 6GB of available
hard disk space, 4GB RAM, 32-bit operating system
and DVD drive
Server operating system
(required):
Client Server: Windows®
2000 or 2003 Server (Enterprise or Standard
editions) with latest service packs. Multi-user/
Professional editions: Windows XP Professional SP2
or higher, Windows Vista Business, 32-bit operating
system
Network
(recommended):
Gigabit full-duplex 10/100/1000 Ethernet
router/switch using CAT5e (or CAT6)
Ethernet cable. Consult with a licensed network
vendor for proper wiring for your business computing
environment. Wireless networks are not recommended.
If a wireless network is the only option, we
suggest, at a minimum, an 802.11G wireless network
Internet
(recommended):
High-speed cable, DSL or satellite internet service
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