Posting Charges

Post charges & payments from the same sequence screen.

  • Posting charges: Each line item can be changed from the default value, such as place of service, modifiers, dates, fee, units, provider, responsibility, and diagnoses. No need to tab through to the next item- just click NEW, or press CTRL-N and advance to the next line. Add as many as three modifiers per procedure.

  • MicroMD automatically alerts you that a co-pay amount should be applied to
    a patient’s account while posting charges.

  • Payment calculation remembers the plan past allowed amount, contracted amount, and payment amount. It displays the amount of patient and insurance responsibility for each charge at the time of posting charges. You are able to inform the patient of their responsibility amount before they leave the office-and collect!

  • Explosion Codes: These are user-defined macro codes that contain any number of specific CPT codes that are always posted together during certain procedures. For example, “PHYSICAL” may contain 99211, 80061,85007 & 93000. Posting @PHYS explodes all the contained codes to the posting screen, making posting charges faster, and the user is less likely to omit a procedure.

MicroMD also lets you select a billing and rendering provider at the time of posting. The billing provider appears on the claim. Various reports can be run based on billing or rendering provider.

  • Documented info can be added to each procedure while posting charges (see
    screen above) and sent with the electronic claim. Up to 160 characters of type
    can be added to each procedure.

Planned Visits are displayed in a pop-up screen at time of posting for patients with authorized visits from their insurance plan. This alerts the operator to the effective date range as well as the number of authorized visits remaining. This can be tracked by procedure, diagnosis, or both.

Additional Insurance Information is displayed on a screen that includes such items as Workers Comp info, last X-ray date, Referring Doctor, and Hospice information. Since this screen can be easily accessed at any time,
this can be filled in at the time of
posting or before the claim is submitted.

Plan Sets and cases determine what insurance plans to use for the patient.
A plan set automatically defaults for
the patient based on the selected case. However, you still have the option to choose another plan set. Plan sets are groups of the patient’s insurance plans. For example, a patient may have a worker’s compensation case and a regular medical case.

Each one of these cases uses a different plan set. When posting charges, the operator selects a
case and the plan set for that case is automatically selected. This allows the patient to have multiple primary, secondary, and tertiary insurance plans.

Patient Walk-out Receipt: The receipt can be printed before the patient leaves the office. This outlines the total activity pertaining to that day’s visit. Also, any prior insurance payments posted to a claim that are paid on by the
patient that day, display on the receipt.

 

MORE FEATURES:

  • Shortcut keystrokes to post and save. Use the Ctrl-N key combo to post a new
    charge. Use the Ctrl-X key combo to exit from a posting screen.

  • Notifies the operator if the patient’s primary insurance plan has changed.

  • Multiple diagnoses can be assigned to an individual procedure and listed according
    to primary, secondary, etc.