Ascent for Health Insurance

Many health insurance organizations have increased their competitive efficiency by scanning their paper-based claims and archiving the resulting images for quick retrieval. But storing images is only half the battle. The biggest productivity benefits and cost saving come from automatically extracting data from the claim forms.

In the past, the complexity of HCFA 1500 and UB-92 forms forced insurance companies to hand-key dozens of pieces of data per form. Custom software has been available to automatically recognize and extract this data, but at a cost and complexity that was prohibitive for all but the very top tier of insurance companies.

Now, Kofax offers a solution that provides unsurpassed data recognition for insurance claims at a price that any company can justify. Based on the world's most popular capture platform, Ascent for Health Insurance offers a truly scalable solution that can be deployed as a mid-volume application, and easily grown to meet the needs of the entire enterprise.

Powerful, Scalable, Customizable

Ascent for Health Insurance is built on the industry-leading Ascent platform and powered by Neurascript INDICIUS to deliver highly accurate data recognition and revolutionary field- and form-level validation. The powerful data recognition engine dramatically reduces the need for manual data entry, and the innovative validation capabilities ensure the accuracy and integrity of the data delivered to your claims processing and content management system.

Ascent for Health Insurance takes advantage of AMA-certified CPT and ICD-9 databases to automatically detect and flag invalid procedure and diagnostic codes. The system can use your client databases or any others to validate patient and doctor data, and can use the current USPS database to authenticate facility and physician addresses. It can also perform crosschecks on fields to further ensure accuracy. The overall result is faster, more accurate claims processing.

The modular Ascent architecture gives you a single-platform solution for capturing information from machine-printed forms, hand-printed forms, unstructured documents, and even electronic data streams, eliminating the cost and effort of maintaining multiple capture systems and letting you create a workflow that fits your business needs: Process single- or multi-page claims, with or without attachments. Create one document containing the claim form and all attachments, or automatically separate them. Use fast "key from image" for hand-printed and other forms that cannot be automated, and use the same validations as for the automated claims.

If you'd like to find out more about Kofax products, please call us now on 01753 616720 or e-mail us with your particular requirements.