Consensys Meidcal Solutions, a medical software company based in Troy with offices in Grand Rapids, has rolled out new software designed to capture and streamline medical case managers' patient billing reports.

The software is intended to save the case managers time, incrase presentation quality and customize the reports to fit the desired formats of individual insurance companies for payment.

The software program, Advocate Reporting Solutions, is the initial product offering of software designer and inventor David Mouatt, managing partner of Consensys.

Mouatt and his two partners created the company to help medical professionals improve efficiency and profitability by replacing massive paperwork compilations with clean digital reports that reduce processing time from hours per report to just seconds.

Mouatt sought out Michigan medical case managers themselves -- specialists who develop and implement efficient treatment plans for their patients -- and discovered they were buried under mountains of paperwork when it comes time to bill insurance companies for medical services.

“They told us they work 50 to 60 hours a week taking care of patients’ needs and then spend countless extra hours writing reports for insurance companies to receive their due compensation,” said Mouatt, 29, who has developed various software programs for health care providers in Michigan as well as Michigan-based retailers Meijer and Herman Miller. “I also found out from them that almost each insurance company wants a different format which made my challenge to create a unified format that would be acceptable to all the companies."

Mouatt’s HIPAA-compliant ARP program is an elastic, dynamic and adoptable software program that  enables case managers and their staffs to amend the multiple elements and various templates that go into billing reports, including patient-care summaries, invoices, and time and mileage tracking, into a clear and cohesive digitized final report.

“The software saves time and money for our auto-injury case management firm,” said Kristen Bierlein, office manager of Care Forward in Southfield that participated in an extensive pre-launch test of the ARP system. Care Forward is owned by Deborah Johnson, president of the East Michigan chapter of the Case Management Society of America, the largest association for certified case managers in the country with more than 20,000 members.

Consensys plans to initially introduce ARP to Michigan-based case managers, then roll out the software program nationally in 2010 to medical case managers in the United States.

More at www.consensysmedical.com or www.advocatecm.com.