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The Improving Seniors' Timely Access to Care Act of 2022 ( H.R. 8487 ) was passed by the House Ways and Means Committee on July 27, 2022. If passed, the legislation " would add requirements that would better regulate the use of prior authorizat...
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Getting Started With Billing
The DrChrono platform revolves around patient appointments. It works this way since that is the way you interact with patients and in turn, bill for the care provided.
To get started, fill out the schedule ...
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When applying to become "in-network" with a health insurance payer, the process contains several distinct parts including credentialing and enrollment.
Let's discuss each of these so you will know what to expect.
Definitions
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A National Provider Identifier (NPI) is a 10-digit numerical unique identifier and a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standard. NPI replaced the numerous different provider numbers previously issued by each payer with a s...
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Click on each blue title on each item below for additional information.
Billing Summary : An overview of your financials comparing the current month to the previous, quarter-to-date to the previous, and year-to-date
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DrChrono provides many tools for you to effectively and efficiently process your claims and keep up-to-date on your financials.
Here is a quick introduction to the various tools available to you.
Billing Summary
The bill...
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When patients come in for an appointment, they receive treatments and/or services and then are charged correspondingly.
Their charge(s) can be split into two categories: charges billed to insurance and charges billed to the patient....
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Part of accepting assignment on your claims to insurance payers will usually direct the insurance payment to your office, rather than being sent to the patient. There are times when you need to "not" accept assignment.
In DrChrono, your ...
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There may be some payers where you do not want to generate or send a patient statement. There is a way in DrChrono to prevent patient statements from generating when a patient account has a specific payer ID listed, and that payer ID has had pati...
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In DrChrono, you are given the option to add a payer if needed.
What is a payer? A payer is an insurance company, auto accident insurance, worker compensation plan, or durable medical equipment carrier that pays patient claims.
There i...