Cooper Green Mercy Hospital Selects Stockell Healthcare's InsightCS® Solution to Address Its Patient Access and Revenue Cycle Management Requirements

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Stockell Healthcare Systems, Inc. is pleased to announce that Cooper Green Mercy Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama has chosen to replace its Meditech system with InsightCS®; the company's proven Patient Access and Revenue Cycle Management software solution that dynamically captures, edits, and manages encounter-based patient care delivery data by converting it into actionable enterprise information. 

"Stockell Healthcare's InsightCS® Patient Access and Revenue Cycle Management software is a natural choice for us," explained Cooper Green Mercy Hospital CFO John Garrett.  "It allows us to integrate our clinical (with OpenVista®), patient billing, revenue cycle and financial systems at a reasonable cost.  Plus, we are able to achieve our clinical and financial objectives while at the same time qualify for Federal meaningful use payments during the first year."

Richard B. Stockell, President of Stockell Healthcare, stated, "We are very pleased with the opportunity to provide our full suite of advanced Patient Access and Revenue Cycle Management solutions to Cooper Green Mercy Hospital.  Community hospitals, including county hospitals like Cooper Green Mercy, are at the heart of local healthcare service delivery and represent a very important market segment for us."

Cooper Green Mercy Hospital also selected Medsphere Systems Corporation's OpenVista® electronic health record (EHR) and will be integrating that system with InsightCS® to achieve true, end-to-end electronic patient care and patient information management.

About Cooper Green Mercy Hospital

Cooper Green Mercy Hospital offers a complete range of health care services for citizens throughout Jefferson County, Alabama with its fees based on family size and income.  On an outpatient basis, it offers a full range of primary care and specialty services, such as general surgery, urology, orthopedics, ENT, ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynecology, cardiology, pulmonary, nephrology, and hematology/oncology.

The Hospital also offers inpatient services, a fully staffed and accredited emergency room, rehabilitation services, a complete range of diagnostic services, and social services.  All care is provided by full-time, Board-certified staff physicians and physicians in training from the University of Alabama-Birmingham.

For more information, visit www.coopergreenmercyhospital.org.

About Stockell Healthcare Systems

Founded in 1984, Stockell Healthcare Systems is a privately held company based in St. Louis, Missouri. The company is committed to providing forward-thinking hospitals, healthcare enterprises, and Integrated Health Networks (IHNs) with InsightCS®; an innovative software solution that incorporates patient access, patient accounting, revenue cycle management and advanced collaboration.

The InsightCS® software system was developed to run in an all Microsoft® environment with a .Net presentation, and includes functionality for Enterprise Scheduling & Registration, Insurance Eligibility Checking (ANSI 270/271), Order Management, Patient Accounting, Billing, Collections, Contract & Denial Management, Document Imaging,  Electronic Remittance Advice processing (ANSI 835), Claims Processing (ANSI 837), Medical Necessity Checking with ABN generation, Workflow Process, Dynamic Worklists and Business Intelligence (Data warehousing including KPI's, Business Analytics and Data Cubes).  

For more information, visit www.stockell.com.

SOURCE Stockell Healthcare Systems, Inc.