Name: Lightning Step
Author: Lightning Step Technologies

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Java Technologies

Development

Career Center

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS)

Quality Management

Smart Spaces

Supply Chain Visibility

Enterprise

Accounting

Loan Origination

Finance and Accounting

401(k)

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

App Development

Bug Bounty

Cloud Storage

Data Center Outsourcing (Canada)

Data Observability

Data Replication

Debugging

Desktop Management

Encryption Key Management

Fraud Detection

HTML Editors

Industrial IoT

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Load Balancing

MLOps

Machine Learning

Managed Security Service

Network Performance Monitoring

Network Troubleshooting

Process Mining

Secure Access Control

Secure Web Gateway

Software Defined Storage (SDS)

Static Code Analysis

Threat Hunting

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Business Card Scanning

Content Management

Digital Signage

Email Management

Email Marketing

Grant Management Software

Marketing Automation

Public Relations (PR)

Real-Time Interaction Management

Social Login

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Interactive Whiteboard

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Sales Acceleration

Sales Dialer

Sales

Microsegmentation

Video Surveillance

Security

HIPAA Compliance

Insurance Suites

Restaurant Management

Tax Practice Management

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Lightning Step is a comprehensive software platform designed specifically for behavioral health and addiction treatment facilities. It caters to facilities of all sizes, including single-location centers, regional treatment centers, and national providers. Professionals in behavioral health, addiction treatment, mental health, substance abuse, and rehabilitation benefit from Lightning Step's all-in-one solution.

## Key Features

**Unified Platform**: Lightning Step offers a unified platform that eliminates duplicated effort, reduces data entry, and provides transparency across the entire patient relationship. Users can access all CRM functionalities with a single login.

**Comprehensive Client Files**: Lightning Step enables users to maintain a comprehensive view of each patient in a single file, from admission to discharge. This includes assessments, treatment plans, case notes, and results.

**Built by Experts**: Lightning Step is an all-in-one EMR/CRM/RCM solution developed by former clinicians and behavioral health experts who understand the unique needs of treatment centers.

**Streamlined and Efficient EMR**: Lightning Step provides an all-in-one solution for EMR needs, streamlining operations and reducing duplication of effort. It offers a single, comprehensive file for each client, threading data throughout the entire client relationship.

**User-Friendly EMR**: Lightning Step's EMR is designed to be user-friendly and intuitive, enhancing staff productivity and optimizing workflows. The system simplifies navigation and ensures total visibility of patient data from admissions to discharge.

**Streamlined and Efficient RCM**: Lightning Step's RCM functionality eliminates duplicated effort and seamlessly integrates patient data to maximize data integrity and process efficiency. It simplifies billing and revenue management for treatment facilities.

**Comprehensive RCM Solution**: Lightning Step's RCM solution securely hosts clinical, medical, and financial information for every patient, ensuring a comprehensive platform that improves efficiency and allows resources to be focused on patient care.

**Easy Integrations**: Lightning Step offers seamless integrations with commonly used services like Twilio, Waystar, and CallTrackingMetrics. These integrations provide scalable solutions for growing treatment centers and help streamline operations.

**Expert Partnerships**: Lightning Step's integrations support facilities of all sizes, from single-location centers to national providers. The platform integrates with existing systems to improve operations, reduce administrative burden, and enhance collaboration and communication.

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Medical Office EMR and EHR Software is designed to deal with the daily operations of a medical office.  It is available as desktop software, client-server software and internet-based software. While the terms EMR and EHR  are sometimes used interchangeably, EMR more often refers to digital records for internal use within the practice, whereas EHR refers to digital records that can be shared externally, with patients, other health care providers, insurance companies, etc.

Medical Office EMR & EHR

Lightning Step Technologies

Billing and Claims Management

Managing the entire revenue cycle to help improve collection rates

Real-time eligibility verification

The software checks a patient’s insurance and benefits eligibility and tracks co-pay and deductible information.

Coding

The software helps users find the correct codes – whether ICD-9 or ICD-10 – for claims.

Claims management

This includes claim scrubbing, electronic claim submission, and automated claim tracking.

Claim scrubbing

Electronic Claim Submission

Electronic Claim Submission refers to the ability of the software to submit claims electronically to insurance carriers from directly within the application.

Automated Claim Tracking

Automated Claim Tracking includes features related to tracking claims throughout their lifecycle through automation.

Patient billing

The software can generate statements, send them to patients via mail or email, and process payments.

Payment Processing

Payment Processing features enable the medical office to receive payments for co-pays or out-of-pocket payments via popular payment methods directly from patients from within the application.

Electronic Bill Pay

Online Bill Pay

Online Bill Pay allows patients to remit payment for co-pay and services via an online interface

Create Patient Statements

The software can generate billing statements for patient on-demand for any time period.

Mail or Email Patient Statements

Patient statements may be delivered via postal mail or electronically via email

Automated Alerts for Overdue Claims

The software automatically generates and sends overdue payment notifications to delinquent accounts.

Superbill Generation

The software generates Superbills which encompass multiple practices, services, visits, time periods, etc.

Denial / Underpayment Management

Denial and underpayment management features

Patient Payment Histories

The system can generate historical balance and payment reports for patients.

Electronic Remittance Advice

The software automatically provides electronic notifications upon remittance of payments

Streamlined Data Entry

Streamlined Data Entry refers to the usability and seamlessness of billing and claims management function data entry.

Billing and claims features requirements for compliance with HIPAA

SiHCFA Compliance

Electronic processing for compliance with SiHCFA workers compensation regulations

Credit Card Processing

Credit Card Processing refers to the ability to receive payment from patients via credit card

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Clearinghouse Integration

The software supports integration with medical payments clearinghouses out of the box.

Accounting Integration

Refers to the medical office software's ability to integrate out of the box with accounting applications

Reporting

Support for reporting features specifically designed to support billing and claims management.

Financial Reporting

Reports and dashboards allow users to understand the financial health of a practice.

Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle Management features enable a medical practice to easily report on and manage cash flow across payables , receivables with both insurance carriers and patients, etc.

Integration with EMR/EHR

The medical office software integrates out of the box with EMR/EHR software.

Patient Scheduling

Managing patient scheduling, appointment reminders, and patient check-in

Drag-and-drop Scheduling

The software supports a graphical calendar interface for easy scheduling of facilities, equipment, physicians, and other staff.

Facility Scheduling

Refers to the ability of medical office software to manage facilities scheduling.

Physician Scheduling

Physician scheduling features enable for dynamic and flexible scheduling of physicians

Rule-based scheduling

The software sets schedules based on a set of rules or criteria that account for various institutional and individual needs.

Automated patient check-in

The software streamlines the check-in process, with features like co-pay notification, digital ID photos, insurance card scanning, waiting time updates, and self-check-in kiosks.

Automated appointment reminders

Patients receive automated reminders via text, phone or email in advance of appointments to help decrease the number of no-shows.

Multi-location support

The software can coordinate scheduling across multiple locations, facilities or practitioners.

ZocDoc Integration

The practice software supports integration to ZocDoc for online patient scheduling out of the box

Calendar interface

The software provides a user-friendly calendar from which users can track and schedule appointments.

Medical Inventory Management

Inventory Management allows medical practices to track supply levels and manage re-ordering.

Automated Supply Tracking

Triggered Reorder Notifications

The medical practice software automatically triggers notifications for supply reorders to office staff when supplies run below set thresholds.

Electronic Medical Records

Digital charting of a patient’s medical and treatment history

Charting / document management

Practitioners can easily create a patient record, take notes, update patient information, and understand a patient’s history at a glance.

Templates

The EMR software includes pre-built and customizable templates to allow for easy, standardized organization of clinical data and notes.

E-prescribing

Practitioners can write and send prescriptions electronically, as well as approve or deny renewal requests.

Lightning Step

Overview

What is Lightning Step?