Financial Oversight Reporting

You can use PCC reports to identify problem areas in your A/R, review collections, and evaluate your growth as a practice. The tables below show PCC’s recommended reporting tools for practice oversight on a daily, weekly, monthly, and annual basis.

PCC offers online Virtual Advanced Training on topics designed to help your practice take better advantage of PCC's features and tools. You've been using PCC EHR for a little while, and now you're ready for a deep dive into how PCC can best intersect with your practice's day-to-day workflow.

PCC uses the WebEx service to connect you to online training courses and training sessions.

The pediatric biller's job would be easier if accounts all paid on time and insurance companies always reimbursed the correct amount. Unfortunately, accounts build up balances and credits and insurance companies overpay, underpay, and demand "takebacks".

PCC's previous software suite includes some specialized, customizable reports for billing and financial analysis. In the sections below, you can learn how to run these under-the-hood reports found in the Practice Management window.

The Smart Report Suite (srs) is a report library in PCC's previous Practice Management system.

You or your practice's accountant may use financial data from reports to analyze profits and make policy decisions for the future of your practice. You may wish to export those reports to another program, such as a spreadsheet, in order to make graphs or combine the numbers with other information.

The Practice Vitals Dashboard is a tool for tracking and reporting your practice's financial and clinical health based on relative performance in a variety of areas. The dashboards provide a series of graphs along with reports and other statistical data to help you evaluate and improve your revenue, coding, clinical benchmarks, claims, and practice productivity.

Follow the procedure below to log in to your practice's dashboard and review your benchmarks and other data.

The Financial and Clinical Pulse pages in your Practice Vitals Dashboard display a detailed explanation of your practice's overall health. The colored gauge on the front page gives you an at-a-glance idea of how your practice is doing compared to national metrics.

The EDI Dashboard shows you detailed totals for your practice's claim activity. You can see total claims, amount billed, and amount rejected or accepted by the claim clearinghouse and payor. You can use the EDI Dashboard to evaluate your claim volume (for both electronic and paper claims) and rejection rates for individual payers.

The Productivity Dashboard reports on visits and RVU totals, per provider or per location. You can track visit trends over time, and examine activity for a specific physician.

Click on any dashboard measure from your Practice Vitals Dashboard to see more details.

The Patient Population dashboard displays a dynamic age distribution graph.

PCC Community is an online forum and email list for users of PCC's pediatric software. By connecting to PCC Community, you can join discussions about issues facing pediatric practices as well as PCC's software and services.

The PCMH dashboard page contains all of the PCC Practice Vitals Dashboard measures that relate to NCQA's 2014 PCMH standards. This page can be used to monitor your performance toward meeting specific elements and factors. You can also print this page to share the data with staff and providers and for submission to NCQA as part of your application for PCMH recogntion.

The Pulse is a source of news and information for PCC clients. We use The Pulse to share information about our upcoming software releases, trainings, conferences, events and web labs, as well as pediatric news and industry information.

PCC offers our clients access to a number of resources from the AAP, including the Pediatric Coding Newsletter and the AAP Red Book.

PCC uses your requests and comments to help decide which features and services to develop. We depend on your feedback; we can't make software without you. Read this article to learn the best way to submit a feature enhancement request or defect.

Bright Futures is a national health promotion and prevention initiative led by the American Academy of Pediatrics. PCC provides Bright Futures chart note protocols, periodicity schedules, handouts, and more to all PCC practices.

This article provides best practices and other recommendations to help you engage with your patients and improve care through communication. PCC recommends that pediatric practices follow communication best practices and abide by guidelines, even when not strictly required by law. Additionally, PCC recommends you include an explicit “consent to contact” in your practice policies.

As a pediatric practice you deal constantly with Personal Health Information (PHI). This data includes: Name, Address, Phone Number Social Security Number Date of Birth Insurance Information Medical Records, including test results This information can be extremely valuable, and therefore a target for hackers. Here are some basic best practices you can implement in order […]

So your practice is moving. Maybe you have outgrown your current space, or want to move to a more affordable location, or your lease is up, or you want to buy a building as an investment? Moving can be complicated. There are many moving pieces, and PCC is eager to make your move successful, with as little interruption to routine and as few surprises as possible.

You can generate and save custom reports and report categories in PCC EHR.

You can access your PCC-provided email services with Roundcube, a Web-based email program. This manual contains an introduction to Roundcube, along with a guide for setting up two-factor authentication (2FA) for your PCC email using the Authy app.

Use the COVID-19 section of your Practice Vitals Dashboard to track and analyze the impact on your practice. Along with details on your practice's charges, payments, and visit volume, you'll find recommendations and links to more resources.

PCC EHR includes a chat/instant messaging tool that lets you chat and send messages to other PCC EHR users.

Contents1 Why Should My Practice Increase Patient Recall Efforts Now?2 Inform Patients of the Value of Vaccines3 Adjust Your Workflows to Accommodate Patient Recall Efforts4 Clean Up Your Patient List Before Doing a Large Recall5 Perform Recalls For Specific Patients and Needs6 How to Code and Bill For These Visits7 Create a Library of Resources […]

Your practice can perform a flu shot clinic while also meeting your enhanced COVID-19 safety protocols. PCC has worked with several practices who are running “drive through” or “curb side” flu clinics. In addition to providing your families and communities with a vital service (flu vaccines!), by running a drive through flu shot clinic, you can prepare your practice for participation in upcoming mass vaccinations coming for COVID-19.

PCC maintains an index of billing services that have used PCC in the past, along with a quick “things to consider” Billing Service Shopping List for practices who are looking into using a billing service.

If a family does not have insurance, or the family won’t be using insurance for an encounter, then a pediatric practices needs to provide a “Good Faith Estimate” for the cost of care when an encounter is scheduled more than 3 days in advance.

The Authy app turns your smartphone into a secure password generator for taking certain actions on your PCC system. Secure Authy passwords are used in conjunction with your regular PCC password to provide an extra layer of security for your account. This article covers how to install and set up the Authy app on your smartphone and tailor notifications to your preference.

Practices can review provider and practice productivity over time using the Total Charges and Payments by Provider and Month report.

PCC has assisted many practices during their transition from charting on paper to charting in an Electronic Health Record (EHR). This article lays out the options and processes involved to help your practice make important decisions about transitioning from paper charting to using PCC EHR.

You can use PCC’s tools and reports to audit charge and payment posting for a day.