Taskmaster for Medical Claims is the latest release of Datacap's leading software solution for the data capture of medical claims. Formerly known as the Health Claims capture system, Taskmaster for Medical Claims is specifically designed to capture, verify and store HCFA-1500 or UB-92 medical claim images and data.
Taskmaster for Medical Claims overviewTaskmaster for Medical Claims will benefit anyone who processes HCFA 1500 or UB-92 medical claims, including HMO's and Blue Cross, Blue Shield organizations, Preferred Providers, and Third Party Administrators.
Enhancements to Taskmaster for Medical Claims include:
Datacap changed the name to better simplify and communicate the fact that Taskmaster for Medical Claims is an extension of award-winning Taskmaster capture workflow platform. The benefit to customers is that as Datacap enhances the platform, all customers can take advantage of those enhancements.
Yes. Taskmaster for Medical Claims is a proven solution designed specifically for high volume medical claim data capture. It includes support for all variations of HCFA 1500 and UB-92 medical claims with support for multi-page claims and attachments. Taskmaster for Medical Claims ships with 172 pre-defined data fields for the HCFA 1500 medical claim and 391 pre-defined fields for the UB-92 medical claim. The Dynamic Recognition Client ensures that a template never needs to be configured regardless of the variation of the claim form or how the data is entered.
Yes, Taskmaster for Medical Claims is used in high volume claim processing
applications including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona, Capital Blue Cross
and others. See complete medical claim processing case studies.
Built on the award-winning Taskmaster capture workflow platform, Taskmaster for
Medical Claims is the first software solution designed specifically for medical
claim processing.
Taskmaster for Medical Claims is based on the Taskmaster capture workflow, which is specifically designed to maximize data recognition accuracy. Key features include:
Taskmaster for Medical Claims decreases cost through a reduction in manual data entry expenses and a reduction in the cost of correcting data errors.
Taskmaster for Medical Claims enables much faster document processing with fewer people. Automated data entry is much faster as well as the verification process. Datacap's unique single-pass modeless data entry screen speeds the verification process, because one window provides an interface to data and image fields, side by side for easy comparison and verification. Operators press one key to jump to the next problem, making corrections rapid and accurate.
Taskmaster for Medical Claims features an EDI output, which adheres to the ANSI X.12 4010 837 formats mandated by HIPAA.
Taskmaster for Medical Claims rules enable easy adjustment to mirror your business process without programming. Rules provide maximum flexibility over the characteristics and sequencing of all phases of the capture process, including image processing, page ID, recognition, the application of business rules for validation, and export formatting. Taskmaster includes a library of hundreds of rules and a point and click interface for easy configuration. Rules are written in VB Script so they can be easily customized, or new ones created.
In Taskmaster, rules are discrete sets of actions, controlled by logic, which are designed to accomplish a task. Taskmaster 6 contains a Rule Library of hundreds of pre-built rules, which are used to implement a capture system at every level in the capture hierarchy - batch, document, page and field levels. You can create your own rules and document capture workflow with Microsoft VB Script.
Taskmaster is powered by Extensible Markup Language (XML), which makes it compatible with the Internet (as well as intranets and extranets) to distribute capture tasks completely securely to PCs with a standard browser. If you have a distributed workforce or multiple office locations, Taskmaster enables you to use the Internet for such tasks as scanning, indexing images, verifying data entry panels, and administering a Taskmaster system. Some customers have taken advantage of this feature to install capture systems centrally using their organization's intranet. The advantage is your IT people don't have to install and maintain software on each individual station.
With Taskmaster, you can scan, index and administer your Taskmaster system using only a standard browser and PC. All you need is a user name and password to access the Taskmaster web server. No software needs to be installed on the PC.
Yes, Taskmaster integrates with many leading document management systems, including Docuware, Global 360 (formerly eiStream), FileNet, Hyland Onbase, IBM Content Manager, EMC Documentum, EMC Legato, OIT, Stellent, Vignette and others.
Taskmaster 6 supports Windows 2000, Windows 2003, XP, and NT. Browser-based capture requires Microsoft IIS and Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher. Datacap is a Certified Microsoft Partner.
There are 172 pre-defined fields for the HCFA 1500 claim form and 391 pre-defined fields for the UB 92. All of these fields are included in the Datacap Standard Export format along with a number of useful "system" variables such as the Batch ID, Date, etc. The field list includes all fields that may show up in any of the popular standard formats, including some optional fields and sub-fields, such as second address lines, etc.
Datacap Standard Export is always produced. This is a very easy-to-use and well-documented format. In addition, Taskmaster for Medical Claims includes a formatting task that has been pre-configured for the following formats: HCFA 1500: ANSI X.12 4010 837B, UB 92: ANSI X.12 4010 837A, which are the EDI formats that are mandated by HIPAA. These formats are complete, but easy to modify. Taskmaster for Medical Claims can provide multiple formats of output for a single claim when required.
Taskmaster for Medical Claims provides a workflow that includes 3 levels of quality control:
Taskmaster for Medical Claims supports Oracle Microsoft Access and has an option to use Microsoft SQL Server. Since Taskmaster for Medical Claims is a true Client/Server product, it greatly reduces the amount of network traffic for database access because the database is only accessed by the Taskmaster Server.
Taskmaster for Medical Claims Auto-capture feature will send claims that pass validation immediately to export. Like Auto-adjudication, Auto-capture is a hands-off process that will split claims that do not need user intervention out of the workflow and route them immediately to export.
Yes, Taskmaster for Medical Claims is configured with a data entry Supervisor Review queue. A data entry operator only needs to hit a single key to send the return to a supervisor.
Taskmaster for Medical Claims includes complete document assembly enforcement. That means that if a claim is incomplete, then it will be routed to a FixUp operator to review, rescan, or reject, if necessary.
Taskmaster for Medical Claims includes a template image display capability that displays the claim form background in red on screen. This makes is very easy for an operator to see the location of the fields. The background image can also be permanently recombined with the scanned image for document archival purposes.
The Taskmaster for Medical Claims installation CD has a simple two-step install, one for the Server and one for Clients. The installation procedure has been extensively tested on a wide range of computers and operating systems, including Windows 95, 98, Windows NT Workstation and Server. Standalone installation of the working system takes about 25 minutes. For full-scale production of the standard system, Datacap has committed to a one-week deployment cycle that includes installation, training, and the beginning of production. (This commitment is for the "off-the-shelf" product without modifications that you may request.)
Taskmaster for Medical Claims Dynamic Recognition Client (DRC) generates a new template automatically for every claim submitted. No matter how the claims are originally printed or if they are filled in with poor field alignment, DRC finds every field and saves that location for accurate recognition.
The Dynamic Recognition Client in Taskmaster for Medical Claims uses multiple, brand-name recognition engines to get the best possible results. We use the industry's leading 32-bit OCR recognition engine, Caere M/Text, and then combine those results with Xerox Textbridge for field-level voting that is configurable by the end user. That means that the customer can decide which fields to use multiple recognizer voting on.
As IT professionals know, the "architecture" of a computer system makes a difference when considering such issues as scalability, stability and performance at peak periods. A true Client-Server system (as opposed to Peer-to-Peer) is better suited for capture systems that need to grow with the user, that process high volumes, and of course, systems that want to take advantage of the Internet. The main difference is the distribution of work. With a peer-to-peer system, all data and images are passed sequentially from one computer to the next until an image has been processed. With Client-Server, data and images are stored on the server, and when a client finishes a task, recognition of a batch of images, for example, it updates the server and asks if there are any other batches ready for recognition, and if so, where to get it. As volumes go up, or you want add new functionality, it's simply a matter of adding a new client and pointing it at the server.
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