Jewish Home Lifecare, one of the oldest and largest nonprofit, long-term care and rehabilitation systems in New York State, has inked a deal to upgrade its revenue cycle management processes.

Emerging Health Information Technology, a Yonkers, N.Y.-based provider of healthcare IT software and services, won the contract to provide IT services to Jewish Home Lifecare at its three campuses in the New York metropolitan area.

Jewish Home Lifecare was formerly known as The Jewish Home and Hospital Lifecare System. Emerging Health is a subsidiary of the Bronx, N.Y.-based Montefiore Medical Center.

Jewish Home Lifecare will use Emerging Health's TRansaction Exchange Knowledge-based Services, or TREKS, to perform eligibility verification, service authorization, claims scrubbing and validation, and payment analysis.

"Fast and accurate insurance verification and claims management are critical to achieving our revenue cycle objectives," said Thomas Gilmartin, chief administrative officer at Jewish Home Lifecare. "Emerging Health's technology will provide solutions that will increase operational efficiency and help us improve the service we provide our clients."

Emerging Health will assist Jewish Home in confirming Medicaid eligibility for its clients through TREKS Verify, a service that creates an electronic exchange making it possible for Jewish Home to transmit files of active patient demographics to a central hub for verification against the Medicaid Management Information System database.