National Electronic Attachment, Inc. (NEA) and Rachel Foerster & Associates, Ltd. (RFA) announced today that they will co-market online electronic medical attachments between their respective health plan and provider clients. RFA and NEA recently completed an agreement enabling healthcare providers and health plans to electronically transmit attachments to NEA for processing. NEA’s FastAttach™ enables medical offices to transmit attachments via the Internet, to NEA’s electronic repository where health plans can view and process them. “NEA is very excited to have been selected by Rachel Foerster & Associates. This effort will support Rachel Foerster & Associates’s strong commitment in continuing to expand its client’s online transactions and improve service to providers and health plans,” stated Tom Hughes, CEO of NEA.
“We look forward to working with NEA. This agreement will enhance both organizations’ connectivity-reach and range of services enabling our customers to electronically exchange medical claims and attachments,” said Rachel Foerster, CEO of RFA. “RFA’s relationship with NEA is a key part of our efforts to building the 277/275 architecture solutions to continue HIPAA’s strategic implementation of electronic commerce in health care. This agreement is another step in our continuous efforts to deliver to our clients tools and solutions to streamline the revenue and payment cycle processes between providers and payers.”
Medical claim attachments may include treatment authorizations, certificates of medical necessity, narratives, worker’s compensation documents including first reports of injury and ER records, managed care carve out calculations and supporting documentation, detail itemized statement of charges, referrals, lab reports, or any other documentation required by a payer to adjudicate a health care claim. Attachments can also be exchanged between providers as necessary to meet patient care requirements.
This will help providers submit more of their claims electronically, accelerate claim processing to achieve improved cash flow, and eliminate the need to duplicate and mail attachments. RFA and NEA anticipate this offering will help payers increase electronic claim volume, reduce in-bound mailroom expenses, and eliminate the time and expense normally required to handle, process, retain, and dispose of attachments.
Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, NEA offers systems designed to make the process of insurance submissions and processing as easy as possible - for the patient, the provider office and the insurance payer. NEA is the acknowledged leader in Electronic HealthCare Attachments for the dental and medical industry in the country, with thousands of Providers in 49 states. See www.NEA-FAST.com.
RFA is a technology services consulting organization founded in 1993 in the Chicago metropolitan area focusing on HIPAA, health care and electronic information management technologies as they can be applied to improving internal and external business processes for health care organizations. Its goal is to architect end-to-end solutions for clients to solve today's problems and to enable tomorrow’s strategies while delivering total cost reduction through process innovation coupled with standardized EDI and electronic commerce as enabling mechanisms. See www.rfa-edi.com.