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Three
easy steps to work your Insurance Accounts Recievable
Balances
1. Pull
the "Insurance Plan A/R Summary" report
from the general reports screen. This report
gives you an aging by Insurance Plan and is aged from
the date-of-service. Highlight any
plans with significant balances aged over 90 days,
etc..
2.
From the General Reports Screen, enter a date range in
the 'start date' and 'end date' filter fields (i.e.
01/01/2006 - 03/31/2006), and enter the appropriate plan
number in filter field 31. Click on the
"Insurance Open Items Rpt " button
under Misc Billing reports. The report will
display as shown below, and click file /
print.
This
report will display "insurance balance" open items for
the specified plan for the specified date range. The
report lists all open claims by patient, and then sorts
each visit for a patient by date of service.
The report displays the patient's insurance ID number,
total charges, total credits, and claim balance.
It also lists the DOS, and the date the claim was last
billed. This is a very usefull report for working
your AR
3.
Work / Rebill the claim
Determine
if the claim has been recieved by the payor, and if so,
why has no payment been recieved. Correct
any problems with the claim data or the patients
demographic data, and resubmit the claim.
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