South Bend Orthopaedics partners with Orthos inc.
South Bend Orthopaedics partners with Orthos to enhance patient administration through monitoring and analytics
South Bend Orthopaedics (SBO), a nationally recognized orthopedic practice, has partnered with Orthos Inc. to implement first-of-its-kind technology where patients and providers say their experience with healthcare is most painful: slow authorizations, insurance errors, and high out of pocket costs.
The partnership brings together a leading orthopedic practice with technology purpose-built to detect and eliminate problems in orthopedic and anesthesia billing. Undetected, these issues can frustrate healthcare providers, drive out of pocket costs including surprise balance billing, and risk a poor patient experience.
Orthos helps prevent these issues by detecting anomalies within clinical and administrative data sets and alerting practices in time to fix it.
SBO and Orthos plan to incorporate monitoring and analytics from end-to-end including:
· Preventing surprise billing by detecting common denial patterns related to coverage and authorizations
· Providing all patients with accurate estimates of the likely cost of their care in fulfillment of Indiana’s Good Faith Estimate law
· Keeping up with constantly changing insurance requirements by detecting changes in billing outcomes so patients are cared for in the right setting at the right time
· Enabling SBO to bring new cutting-edge imaging technology to the market with a seamless billing experience for patients and the practice
· Eliminating cancellations and interruptions to clinical care by investing extra attention to the procedures at higher risk of insurance-related delays
· Introducing Orthos to ambulatory surgery centers and physician owned hospitals
“This partnership is a win for our community and SBO’s place in it” said Dr. AJ Mencias, President of South Bend Orthopaedics. “Before Orthos, we were fighting an uphill battle that was taxing those we set out to serve when we got into medicine, our patients. We’re committed to reversing that trend and believe Orthos is the partner to make that happen.”
“Our partnership and progress with SBO helps validate our core belief that technology and data can be used in new ways to improve patients’ care and experience,” said Ryan Callahan, President of Orthos. “The commitment from SBO gives us the opportunity to expand our product offerings and impact communities across the country”.
About Orthos Inc.
Orthos is a business intelligence platform designed to make orthopedic and anesthesia practices more efficient. Since it’s founding, Orthos has built services and technology focused on eliminating issues in the revenue cycle management process. Orthos’ success comes from using revenue cycle management domain experts working along side product & technology experts. This approach has allowed Orthos to become a leader in orthopedic and anesthesia data monitoring and analytics while serving independent practices, ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) and hospitals.
About South Bend Orthopaedics
South Bend Orthopaedics provides specialized care for all musculoskeletal surgery and orthopaedic rehabilitation patients, as well as those suffering from work-related and sports injuries. Founded on the principle of providing excellence in orthopaedics, SBO has been serving the needs of the northern half of Indiana and southern Michigan since 1947 and functions as the Orthopaedic Surgeons for The University of Notre Dame Athletics Department since 1949. Services include joint replacement, sports medicine, upper and lower extremity surgery, pain management, diagnostic imaging, physical and occupational therapy. With 24 physicians and surgeons and multiple other advanced practitioners with several locations, SBO is proud to be the trusted orthopedic experts for South Bend and the surrounding region.