Entering charges manually

Question 1

Why would customers need to enter manually enter charges?

Answer 1

Clinicians are not placing orders in an EMR, Clinicians perform services at outside place of service, interim clinical staff might not be trained on how to enter orders in an EMR, charges might be entered manually by analyzing a providers documentation to determine what services he performned

Question 2

Why are there multiple charge entry modules?

Answer 2

Different features for different workflows

Different organizational needs when entering charges

Question 3

What is generated when a patient’s visit is checked in?

Answer 3

encounter form number

Question 4

What are examples of an encounter?

Answer 4

office visits, nurses visits and procedure visits

Question 5

What modules might you use to enter charges manually?

Answer 5

Charge router charge entery
Professional Billing Charge entry
Anasthesia Charge Entry

Question 6

What is a procedure count?

Answer 6

number of procedures to be entered

Question 7

What is a procedure hash?

Answer 7

Numerical sum of all of the procedure codes to be entered

Question 8

What is the “holding tank” in the system into which all charge tickets are entered?

Answer 8

Charge entry Batch

Question 9

What is the difference between an error and a warning?

Answer 9

Errors must be fixed before going forward ; Warnings should be reviewed but do not need to be changed.

Question 10

What is a claim?

Answer 10

a paper or electronic submission to an insurance company requesting payment for services rendered to a patient.

Question 11

Define a claim information record

Answer 11

used within the system to hold additonal information that is needed in order to produce an accurate claim, ie. accident date and body part injured for a workers comp claim.

Question 12

When do you use the new session button?

Answer 12

missed entering a charge ticket

Question 13

When do you use the pencil >edit button?

Answer 13

when a charge session is entered incorrectly

Question 14

Pencil>Delete Session

Answer 14

Added a charge session in error

Question 15

When do you use the Edit Batch button?

Answer 15

entered control amounts incorrectly

Question 16

What options does the edit session allow you to do?

Answer 16

access charge sessions you already entered, in case you made a mistake while entering the session information.

Question 17

What does the delete session option allow you to do?

Answer 17

lets you remove a charge entry session if it was added in error.

Question 18

Where does a charge go if it is pending?

Answer 18

PB Charge review workqueue.

Question 19

T/F? Each charge entry batch contains only one charge entry session?

Answer 19

False. Each charge entry batch can contain an unlimited number of charge entry sessions.

Question 20

T/F? Each charge entry batch only contains information for one patient’s charges?

Answer 20

False. The batch can contain charges for an unlimited number of different patients.

Question 21

Name two conventions for entering a diagnosis code in the code field on the charge entry form.

Answer 21

Enter the ICD code or the name and description of the diagnosis.

Question 22

On the procedure line, what purpose does the diagnosis field serve?

Answer 22

the entry in this field associates the charges with the appropriate diagnosis from the diagnosis table.

Question 23

What is the purpose of processing your batch?

Answer 23

Processing the batch posts the charges and makes them available for billing.