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Ensuring your medical billing is accurate and your claims compliant is important.
Current industry standards suggest approximately 10% of claims are rejected. Keeping the number of rejected claims to a minimum is therefore important for your cash flow and for maintaining efficie…
Margaret and Steven Faux are harnessing technology in very different ways to push health care into a new era of efficiency and breakthrough applications.
Scrawled on the whiteboard perched in Margaret Faux’s office in Sydney’s eastern suburbs is a cacophony of acronyms and…
On average we speak seven times faster than we can write or type.
So for clinicians and medical practitioners who are expected to produce reams of correspondence and other documentation in addition to managing patient care, dictation clearly has huge advantages in terms of produ…
Clinical coding is important.
This is not news. It’s certainly no secret. The question that should be being asked now is ‘how can clinical coding be leveraged to maximise the efficiency of a hospital or health service?’ The links between accurate coding and revenue are obv…
Clinical Coding is currently our biggest area of growth and this is due in no small part to the talent, experience, and commitment of our clinical coding team. In this latest article in our Meet the Team series we’d like to introduce you to the leaders of this group who are res…
It’s the people who make the place and here at AIMAC we have some of the best people. Meet the team who handle our day to day operations and ensure our students have a great experience with positive learning outcomes.
Also coming soon we’ll be profiling our ama…
The study referenced in the Australian Doctor article and published in BMJ Open 2018 was led by Synapse CEO Margaret Faux.
GPs are being exposed to the “unnecessary risk” of falling foul of Medicare rules because so few organisations are willing to provide guidance on ho…
Synapse co-hosts 3rd Advance Health plenary session.
Last month we along with our UAE partners OPEN Health, Connect Communications, and Dubai Science Park hosted our 3rd Advance Health plenary session and networking event. The theme this time was “Telemedicine in the evol…
You’re likely guilty of this, so beware: the law trumps Medicare advice on bulk-bill vouchers
Having patients sign the vouchers – and then filing them in a place other than the bin – is more important than you might think.
Make one false move with Medicare and you’ll end up i…
Jennifer Dogget, Editor for Croakey, is writing a series of health columns for Inside Story. In this article she weighs in on out of pocket expenses with quotes from Synapse CEO Margaret Faux:
Fast-rising medical expenses are restricting access to healthcare and increasing long-…
#outofpocket
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IABCA Awards Evening – Brisbane City Hall 12th October 2018
On Friday evening Synapse Medical Services were honoured to be in attendance at Brisbane City Hall as finalists for the fifth annual India Australia Business and Community Awards Gala evening.
Synapse were honoured…
Training Organisation – First MOU!
We’ve recently brought news of our officially launched registered training academy, AIMAC, and hot on the heels of the launch we are delighted to annouce the first Memorandum of Understanding involving the academy as we look to make first-c…
Synapse partners visit our Chennai office as part of AIMAC launch
In the lead up to our official launch of our registered training organisation, AIMAC, we invited several of our key partners to come and tour our Chennai office. We were delighted that representatives from Advan…
Synapse launches a registered training organisation in Chennai.
On Wednesday 3 October, guests attended the launch of the Australian Institute of Medical Administration and Compliance (AIMAC) – a new Registered Training Organisation for Australian company Synapse Medical Ser…
Education and Development in Healthcare
Anyone working in healthcare will notice the unique style of employment and services needed in such a specific industry. Unlike administration in any other sector, it’s important to note that education is the key to working in or running…
ISO 9001: 2015
In order to improve it’s important that you have a good understanding of what you’re currently doing and where your strengths and weaknesses are. At Synapse Medical Services we are constantly evaluating how we stack up against our competition and what we act…
In addition to our expansion efforts into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia we have maintained a presence in the United Arab Emirates for two years now. A couple of months ago we announced our partnership with OPEN Health, Connect Communications, and Dubai Science Park to launch the …
In recent months we’ve been expanding our footprint in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as we look to help with the adoption of ICD-10AM across the healthcare sector.
This has meant recent visits to Riyadh for our CEO, Margaret Faux, Clinical Coding Manager, Anna Coote and Busine…
Seventh in series – Articles on out of pocket medical expenses.
The latest article in Croakey’s #OutOfPocket series addresses a poorly-understood aspect of medical billing for privately insured patients who have been in hospital.
Margaret Faux explains why receiving two…
Hello Network,
I hope you stayed warm through the southern hemisphere winter or survived the sweltering heat up north. As ever it’s been a hectic and exciting couple of months for us at Synapse towers. We’ve been globetrotting and experiencing both weather extremes.
In …
Of all the things a trainee medical practitioner must learn, how to bill their patients is one of the most problematic.
A single Medicare service can be the subject of more than 30 different payment rates, myriad rules and strict penalties, including custodial sentences, for no…
We’re hosting a free breakfast on 31 August at our offices where we will be showcasing and demonstrating our latest medical billing service.
Each attendee will have the opportunity to use the service first hand and experience the new medical billing app that is set to disrupt …
You have likely heard that BUPA made some changes to their Medical Providers Gap Schemes, which came into effect on the 1st August. We would like to take this opportunity to give you our quick guide as to how this might impact your billing.
Billing private patien…
The following is an excerpt from the DFAT India Economic Strategy by Mr Peter N Varghese AO
CASE STUDY:
Synapse: A successful model of integrated service delivery for Australia and India
Australian company Synapse Medical Services has found an opportunity to …
Everyone involved in the practice of healthcare is expected to know how to bill correctly yet it’s not being taught in any systematic or organised fashion by anyone.
Synapse Principal and CEO Margaret Faux has been studying this issue in her PhD thesis, this article published …
Pulse+IT article – Synapps MBS launch
Written by Kate McDonald
First published by Pulse+IT on 9/7/2018
Sydney medical billing, clinical coding and medical transcription specialist Synapse has launched a new rules engine-based app called Synapps MBS, aimed at ensuring Medic…
Synapps MBS – The future of medical billing is here. Don’t get left behind.
In Australia, medical billing can be extremely complicated and tedious. With Australia’s mixture of private and public healthcare, and changes constantly being made, billing errors can commonly oc…
Networking platform “Advance Health” outcome of MoU signed with OPEN Health, Synapse Medical Services and Connect Communications
Dubai-UE: 18 July, 2018
Dubai Science Park (DSP), a science-focused business community, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with OPEN…
We are proud of our diversity here at Synapse and our Business Development Team is a perfect example. Thom, Amanda, and Rod have each come from vastly different backgrounds and bring a wide variety of personal and professional experiences and skillsets to the table. Here’s a li…