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# [E-Bills and Eligibility](https://chipsblog.pcc.com/e-bills-and-eligibility)

 Written by [Chip Hart](https://chipsblog.pcc.com/author/chip-hart) | Feb 6, 2008 8:00:14 PM

Igor has been *very* busy lately, and he decided to look into how much our clients benefit from using two of Partner's features: the ability to send "electronic bills" and automatically check eligibility.  
 For the sake of definition, "electronic bills" are when customers hit a button and all of their bills go shooting out across the Internet and are printed, stuffed, folded, and postage-d professionally. "Automatically check eligibility" means that Partner looks at the day's schedule and checks the eligibility of the patients, well, automatically, providing a report for the front office each morning. Essential stuff.  
 We were surprised by the results. Not that there is a difference or even that "E-bills" and "Eligibility" benefit pediatric practices. We were surprised by *how much *of a difference there is. Check it out:

| Average A/R By Client Type |  |  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Personal A/R Days ** | **Insurance A/R Days ** | **Total A/R Days ** | **Total** **Difference** |  |
| **Using EBills ** | **7.45 ** | **23.65 ** | **31.10 ** |  |
| **NOT Using EBills ** | **8.62 ** | **29.02 ** | **37.64 ** | **21%** |
| **Using Eligibility ** | **7.96 ** | **25.05 ** | **33.01 ** | ** ** |
| **NOT Using Eligibility ** | **7.99 ** | **30.06 ** | **38.05 ** | **15% ** |
| **Using Both ** | **7.27 ** | **23.06 ** | **30.33 ** | ** ** |
| **Using Neither ** | **7.53 ** | **31.80 ** | **39.33 ** | **30% ** |

Yup - our practices using EBills have an A/R that is 21% lower than those who don't.  Eligibility lowers it another 15%.  Combined, it's 30%.  Amazing.  [And, yes, PCC customers ***average *about 34 days **of A/R.  Not bad, eh?]  
 So, regardless of your PM system, it might be time to consider Ebills and automatically eligibility...though I suspect the type of folks who read my blog already know this.  
 More later - and I hope to hear from Dr. Marcus, who will give me another perspective on the CCHIT process.

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