3. Configuration Options and Tools

You can choose the age of receivables you wish to review, limit the report by insurance company, provider, or place of service, and make many other configuration choices that change the output of inscoar. Here is the options screen you will see when first running inscoar:

Output Options for inscoar

• Send report to:

  You can view the inscoar report on the computer screen, print it out, or have it sent to your e-mail inbox. You can also view the report as an "Interactive Screen," which allows you to work on the charges as you review them.

Criteria Options for inscoar

• Age of Receivables:

  You can limit the inscoar report to only those charges that are over a certain age, those that within a certain age range, or those that occurred during a specific date range. Using these options, you could, for example, choose to view only insurance charges that are nearing the end of a particular carrier's timely filing limit.

• All Insurances?

  If you enter "No," you will be prompted to select insurance plans or groups that you wish to view. Otherwise, you will see all insurance plans that have outstanding charges. This option is useful if you are dealing with a particularly poor payor.

• All Servicing Providers?

  If you enter "No," you will be prompted to select providers or provider groups for which you wish to view charges. The default of "Yes" will run the report for all providers that have any outstanding charges.

• All Places of Service?

  If you enter "No," you will be prompted to select the place of service for which you wish to view charges. The default of "Yes" will run the report for all places of service for which there are outstanding charges.

• Include Personal Charges?

  Change this item to "Yes" if you wish to view all charges, regardless of whether they pend an insurance carrier or are the guarantor's responsibility. In this way, you could analyze personal charges at the same time as insurance charges.

Formatting Options for inscoar

• Show Batch HCFA Dates?

  Change this item to "Yes" if you want the date the charges were batched to show in the report. This may be useful when dealing with old charges that have been resubmitted several times.

• List Insurances with no pending charges?

  By default, inscoar will create a list at the bottom of the report of insurance plans that meet your criteria but do not currently have any outstanding charges pended to them. Change this option to "No" to suppress the list.

• Suppress page breaks when printing?

  Change this field to "Yes" if you wish to print the report in one long section. By default, inscoar prints different insurance plans to different pages for your convenience.

• Extra Information To Show:

  Use these settings to show the information from the four boxes in the Patient Editor (notjane) on the report. For example, if your office stores insurance ID# information in one of those boxes, it may be useful to have that information on your inscoar report.