FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

     The Billing component enables you to work with patient charges.

  • Visit selection criteria
  • Streamline your search for visits based on available criteria
  • Create custom charge sets for fast and easy access to commonly-used diagnoses/procedure codes; append charge sets on a single visit
  • Up to nine diagnoses on a visit
  • Unlimited fee schedules for easy tracking of fees, costs, and allowed amounts by procedure; unlimited managed care fee schedules
  • Easy entry of modifiers, place of service (POS) and type of service (TOS) codes
  • Automated charge tickets virtually eliminate input errors
  • Capitation accounts management
  • Search database for all procedures used in the system
  • Handle multiple physicians, specialists, and locations
  • Automatic tracking of visit statuses until paid
  • Pull up visits by patient and/or guarantor
  • Estimate patient responsibility for collection at time of service
  • Void and entire visit; clone visits
  • Copy fee schedules; effective/expiration dates on fee schedules

ANESTHESIA

  • Automatic "time to unit" calculations and concurrency determination for medically directed services
  • Flexible billing of anesthesia claims both on paper and electronically
  • Print reports showing start and stop times, procedures, time and modifier units charges, and calculate expected payments using carriers expected pay rate per unit
  • Automatically calculate procedure concurrency and add the appropriate modifiers

FILING CLAIMS AND REPORTING

  • Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
  • Electronic Claims Remittance (in selected areas)
  • Insurance paper claims (HCFA-1500 and UB-92)
  • Track filing of claims
  • File claims selectively: all claims or a specific claim
  • Submit secondary claims electronically (in selected areas)
Billing
 
Schedule
Billing
Accounts Receivable
Charge Management
Reports
Patient Information
Payment Entry
Collections
Transaction Management
Administration
 
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