"Money is a headache, and money is the cure." -Everett Mámor

If Dr. Doolittle had put his efforts into designing a medical billing environment, no doubt he would have created one not unlike the one medical practices have to deal with today, a pushmi-pullyu with a labyrinth of innards that are tangled, confusing, often pulling in opposite directions, and, to top it off, ever-changing. In the not-so-distant past, billing and receiving payments from patients and insurance companies was relatively simple, and many individual and small group practices dealt with it that way. "My doctor gave me six months to live," Walter Matthau once quipped, "but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more." So it went. Read more...

For Maywood, NJ-based ADS, which produces the popular medical practice management software package MedicsElite, and also MedicsDocAssistant, an electronic medical records package, the task of making its software "PQRI compliant" was a relatively simple one. Read more...