Posting Payments

     
Partial Claim Payment and Re-filing: The operator can select the procedure lines in the Payment Calculation window to include in drag and drop posting. This allows only procedures that have been paid on to be included in the payment posting and allows for easier posing of individual line items. The system recognizes that not all line items have been posted and allows the remaining lines to be refilled to the insurance company. The primary insurance company remains responsible for the sequence.

Automatic prompting for the creation of the secondary claim is illustrated at the right. This also allows claims crossed over to the secondary insurance to be tracked, but not duplicated, as in the case of Medicare. Clicking Process creates the secondary claim that can then be immediately
printed or printed with the entire batch at the end of the day

AUTO POSTING is a form of electronic remittance in which the practice is able to connect to the insurance carrier’s computer and download its EOMB for a particular batch of claims. Next, the system displays all of the claims for that batch, as illustrated to the right. One click-and the system automatically posts the payment, posts the write-off, enters into the  patient’s

record that a secondary claim has
been crossed over by the primary
(if available), posts to the patient’s record the amount applied to the patient’s deductible, and creates
any secondary claims not being processed by the primary insurance company.
 

Three reports can then be printed:

The Auto Payment Posting Report (as illustrated to the right) shows the status of all the claims, the amount allowed, amount paid, written off, and applied to the deductible, the Exception Report shows what was not posted, and the Secondary EOB report prints the EOB information for every secondary claim that needs to be processed on a separate sheet of paper.

Uni-Posting allows you to post a single patient payment to cover all patient-responsible sequences. MicroMD applies the payment to the oldest encounter first and continue paying off the next oldest encounter until the check is depleted. MicroMD also uni-posts for an entire family. It identifies all non-insurance due encounters and displays the posting date, service date, sequence (encounter) number, the balance of the encounter, the number of charges in the encounter, the provider, and which family member incurred the charges. It then starts with the oldest encounter and continues to apply the check until the check is fully applied, at which time it shows these encounters as paid and updates the balance of the last encounter posted.

Force Statements make sure that a patient receives a statement even if the patient is not due to receive one. This feature is only available when using cycle billing. For instance, if a payment is received from an insurance carrier and the balance is transferred to the patient, but the patient is not due to receive a statement until the next month, you can force a statement to print for this patient the next time billing is done. Simply place a checkmark in the Force Statement field from the Patient Sequences or Billing Inquiry screens to enable this feature.

MORE FEATURES:

  • Shortcut keystrokes to post & save

  • Patient medical alerts & remarks are displayed

  • Sequence-specific notes are available for each encounter

  • Fast entry into Billing Inquiry from Task Bar

  • Patient receipts can be printed from Print icon

  • Refiling of claims is easy