Charge Entry Process in Medical Billing

Summary: This article would help you to understand the required field and procedure of Charge entry:

The document which used for charge entry process is Super-Bill which give basic information of ICD and CPT codes required for Charge Entry.

Fields which required in Charge Entry

1: Patient Account No. (Which is assigned to patient at the time of registration)
2: Facility ID or Hospital ID
3: Doctor ID or Provider ID
4: PCP ID - optional
5: POS (place of service)
6: DOS (Date of service)
7: Member ID
8: Dignostic Codes (ICD codes)
9: Procedure codes (CPT Codes)
10: Modifiers
11: Units
12: Billed Amount - (Billed amount is entered against every procedure code).

Enter all above fields in a claim and amount against every procedure codes and make sure that the tree created between ICD and CPT codes should be correct and enter modifier with procedure code when it is required.

Above were the steps and field involved in charge entry process and claim creation
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