The Charge and Adjustment entry location within
Medical Billing Assistant empowers your office to track
each transaction with a high degree of success. Your
collections are valuable, therefore, it is important to
have one of the strongest practice management tools
available.
- Use incidents to track and group related charges.
Keeps track of pre-authorization numbers and how many
visits are left
- Reference CPT and ICD-9 codes by either the code
or the description.
- Use up to 8 diagnoses per charge
- Use up to 4 modifiers per charge
- Assign charges to responsible parties so that the
program can track insurance submissions and payment
responsibility
- Unique "Charge On Hold" field
allows the user to post the charge yet place it on
hold to prevent it from being billed until removed
from hold. Charge error report reminds you of charges
that are on hold every time insurance claims are
submitted.
- Users can post to their own individual batch so
that they can balance separately from other users
- Charge defaults from patient's last procedure
minimize the amount of data entry and speed the charge
entry process
- Search through the included master ICD-9 and CPT
databases for key words when adding new codes
- Through the use of fee schedules, the system
automatically references the amount to charge a
patient with certain insurance coverage. The ability
to add multiple fee schedules provides a dynamic
approach to fit any office situation.
- Charge summary screen contains expected co-payment
amount information
- Charge summary screen allows you to review what
you have posted for this patient. It provides a total
for the day's charges so that you can balance with the
charge ticket
- Immediately and quickly post a patient payment
after the charge entry from this screen
Adjustment Entry
- With MBA's Patient Adjustment Screen the user can
post the payment and adjustment from an EOB at the
same time
- MBA's adjustment defaults remember the date, check
number, adjustment type, and insurance company used on
the most recent adjustment. This allows for quicker
data entry of insurance EOB's
- Color coded transaction types
- An on screen running total of all payments posted
for a particular check number, allows for quick visual
reconciliation with insurance EOB's
- At the time of posting the payment, the system
will automatically file any remaining balance to other
insurance providers; if no other providers are listed
the system automatically bills the patient
- The user can post the payments and adjustments to
a separate batch other than the charges
- The user can quickly and easily posts to all open
charges for the patient or family account
- The user can apply a payment across several
patient's accounts that are linked together as a
family
Medical Billing Assistant
Modules
Patient Charge
and Adjustment entry Review Appointment Scheduler
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