Post an Administrative Charge

Read this procedure to learn how to create a hospital encounter on a patient's chart, post hospital diagnoses and charges, adjust claim information, and queue up a claim.

Learn how to post a forms fee or any other administrative charge that could occur outside the context of an appointment.

As you post charges, you can review and update patient information (like insurance eligibility), double-check the linking and codes that the clinician selected, and post any payments received.

PCC automatically checks insurance eligibility for all of a scheduled patient's active insurance plans, if the carriers support automated eligibility. You can use eligibility features in PCC to review and confirm eligibility for upcoming appointments. You can also review and re-check a patient's insurance eligibility status during Patient Check-In.

After you bill a visit in PCC EHR, you can return to the patient chart and review what was sent to the checkout program.

Your practice can bill for phone calls and portal messages. Read this article to learn how to chart and bill for a phone encounter (or portal message thread). You'll also find configuration instructions and tips for turning phone calls and portal messages into billable telemedicine encounters.

You can quickly and easily reconcile payments that your practice has posted in PCC EHR. Run the Payment Reconciliation report in order to prove out, checking against your cash drawer and records at the end of the day or the end of your shift. Open the Payment Reconciliation report from the Report Library in PCC […]

Learn how to schedule, chart and bill a telemedicine visit with PCC.

Read this article to learn about configuration options and implementation recommendations for the Post Charges features in PCC EHR.

Contents1 Review the Schedule Screen and Messaging Queue Daily for Billing Status Updates1.1 Ready to Post1.2 New Items2 Set Default Billing Status Filters3 Run the Encounters by Billing Status Report4 Establish a Billing Routine4.1 Contact PCC for Additional Workflow Support Your pediatric practice renders so many services in a day that it can be difficult […]

You can review all of a patient's billable encounters in the Billing History section of a patient's chart.

Use this outline, and linked materials, to learn how to complete billing tasks in PCC.