Chargemaster Management

Hospital chargemaster management, aka chargemaster maintenance, with Vitalware is a comprehensive solution that combines technology and expertise, and brings all data into one view. We connect systems and workflows, making both data and processes transparent and optimally efficient — increasing productivity, correcting errors at their source, and keeping you confidently compliant.

Core Value, and More...

VitalCDM is our chargemaster solution core, but innovative tools complement this core. Our integrated suite creates value for clients in each application area. Vitalware's hospital charge description master (CDM) suite enables clients to access, view, update, use, and analyze their chargemaster and all ancillary files in a single solution. Together, these tools enable healthcare providers to compete and thrive in an environment that is changing faster than ever before.

VitalCDM®

No more rogue spreadsheets, add-on tools, or separate modules. VitalCDM offers a complete hospital chargemaster maintenance solution. Hospitals and healthcare providers need solutions that can help make them more efficient, and transparent. Your chargemaster touches clinical data, procedure codes, supplies, pharmacy, service codes, and the claim. It’s the Rosetta Stone for your hospital or medical group’s financial operations. With VitalCDM, your chargemaster will become a primary driver of efficiency for your revenue cycle.

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VitalKnowledge®

VitalKnowledge provides real-time access to 100+ reference libraries, updated rigorously, to make sure you’re always accurate and compliant. You’ll also get intelligent, robust reporting on items that can cause reimbursement problems or compliance issues. VitalKnowledge libraries are maintained by our unmatched team of content professionals.

VitalKnowledge

Workflow

Workflow enables your team to create customized routing and distribution workflows to standardize (and thereby greatly accelerate) typical approvals and requests. You can set up work items to flow exactly the way you want them to — and change those flows quickly if the need arises.

Workflow

View™

View gives you the ability to see, compare, and manage all of your disparate files from a single, unified view. This is the new standard in chargemaster management — the ability to work with a truly complete record of your financial information from a single solution.

View

Physician, Pharmacy, Supply, Ancillary

Managing physician, pharmacy, supply, and other ancillary files becomes a unified process with our single, integrated platform. With VitalCDM, you can access and analyze your professional, pharmacy, supply, and ancillary chargemasters — without requiring an additional CDM module.

Pharmacy Analysis

Variance

Chargemaster maintenance for multi-hospital organizations that use disparate billing systems is time-consuming, creates CDM inconsistencies, and reduces visibility across the entire system. That’s why we built a tool that can link disparate CDM files together in a single system. This creates visibility into your discrepancies, makes CDM management efficient, and reduces your compliance risk.

Variance

OPPS Calculator

Vitalware OPPS Calculator puts you in control of your own outpatient (OP) billing. OPPS Calculator is an analysis tool designed specifically to help quickly and accurately determine appropriate wage-adjusted reimbursement for hospital OP claims before sending them out, and to audit reimbursement after the claim is paid.

OPPS Calculator

Integration

We’ve worked with nearly every major patient accounting system in the country which has taught us to be flexible and resourceful. Depending on what your PAS allows, we’ll either do a direct JSON feed or produce an XML or flat file. Our experienced and detail-oriented team will work with your technical personnel to determine the best method to get your chargemaster data synced between your PAS and VitalCDM.

Price Transparency

Vitalware developed Hospital Price Index to be a useful tool for both patients and providers while also allowing you to comply with the government’s mandate to post standard hospital prices. By increasing transparency and providing patient-friendly descriptions around charges, our tool reduces confusion surrounding different health care costs and increases patient and consumer confidence in procedure-based pricing.

Hospital Price Transparency

CDM Consulting

Our CDM consulting teams are focused on your success. We have the experience and the tools to identify key areas for improvement, and we consistently (and quickly) help our clients optimize their mid-revenue cycle data and processes, and achieve self-sufficiency.

CDM Consulting

Our Better Chargemaster Promise

Complete consumption and use of all data relevant to your chargemaster management.

Easy-install and product enhancements with little or no IT involvement needed.

Dedicated client management with a real person responding to your needs.

Category-leading product training and best-in-class industry knowledge.

A focus on your operational independence and autonomy. When you work with Vitalware, we commit to finding and solving charge management problems at their roots.

Putting All The Pieces Together

With VitalCDM, your chargemaster data is better, your workflows are smoother, and your access to pertinent information is immediate and comprehensive. More than 1,000 hospitals have made the move to VitalCDM — positioning themselves to compete with vision and clarity in today's fast-evolving marketplace.

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