4. Working With Electronic Remittance Advice (ERAs)

An ERA is an electronic version of the traditional EOB. Instead of receiving a printed, paper explanation of payments and adjustments, an ERA arrives electronically and payment is sent separately or deposited directly into your practice's bank account. ERAs appear along with other reports on the main ecsreports screen.

You can select an ERA and view it, print it, or search it just as you can other EDI reports. Since ERAs must be posted in the Post Insurance Payments (pip) program, most users will print the ERA by selecting it and pressing [F2 -- Print Selected]. Future Partner changes will allow you to automatically post ERAs within the pip program.

On the screen, an ERA looks like this:

Use the right and left arrow keys to view the parts of the report that extend off the screen.

A printed ERA looks like this:

After you print an ERA, the value in the "Number of Times Printed" column will increase.