Configure Claim Holds and Claim Delay

When your practice needs to prevent certain claims from being submitted, you can create a claim hold. A claim hold prevents claims from going out for specific dates of service, billing providers, places of service, and insurance plans. You can also configure your practice’s claim delay, which prevents any claim from going out until a certain number of days after the date of service.

Your practices receives many different electronic responses to claim submissions and billing. Read this article to learn the different EDI responses, which responses require attention, and how to use PCC's tools to review and respond.

Use the Claims tool to process and submit claims to insurance companies and other payers, work on claims that could not be submitted, and review a log of submissions.

PCC's insurance billing tools help you process and prepare claims, send them electronically or print them, review rejections and denials, fix problems and resubmit, and work down your insurance accounts receivable. You can maximize the use of your time as you pursue proper insurance reimbursement.

After you submit claims, your practice will receive clearinghouse and payor acknowledgements as well as ERAs and other electronic notifications from PCC, claim clearinghouses, and payors. You can use tools in PCC EHR to review these responses. When you need to do deeper research, you can use the EDI Reports (ecsreports) program.

While most claims are transmitted to payors electronically, sometimes you may need to generate a paper 1500 HCFA form.

How is a claim created, and what happens in the background to make sure your practice is paid? Read below to learn some of the "under the hood" workings of claims after you post charges into PCC EHR.

After you prepare and submit claims, you must deal with claims that could not be submitted or were rejected.

What kinds of pre-submission processing does your PCC system do on claims? What errors can it find, and how do you fix them?