Insurance Billing

 
Once charges are in place and have a "to bill" status, generating insurance claims requires very few steps as most of the work has been done while entering the patient, case, insurance and charge information.
 
Before you actually generate a claim, it is important to note that there are five different methods by which your QuickPractice software can generate CMS 1500 insurance bills. Be sure to study and understand what each of these methods are used for, before you actually create a claim.

  • CMS 1500 - The most basic way to print and send an insurance claim using QuickPractice. Claims will be printed onto a pre-formatted CMS-1500 form which you have purchased and loaded into your office printer. If you select this option without having loaded the pre-formatted forms, only black text will appear and the form will not be usable. To view the procedure for printing insurance claims, click here.
  • Blank Paper - Choosing this option prints not only the black text from patient info, case info, charges etc, but also the image of the CMS-1500 form itself. Some insurance carriers will accept claims generated in this manner, while others require that the claim is printed onto the pre-formatted form explained above. This feature is useful when printing claims for office record keeping purposes and proof of sales/charges/services.
  • Print to File - Print to file is typically chosen by users who have their insurance claims delivered to the carrier, but by a clearinghouse besides QuickPractice (i.e. a third party clearing house). Generally, a batch of insurance claims is "printed" and stored as a text (.txt) formatted file on computer hard drive. After the text file has been created, it is uploaded to whatever clearinghouse has been contracted to process your insurance claims.

! IMPORTANT: If you are using the print to file feature to generate insurance claims, QuickPractice is not responsible for ensuring that your claims are processed by the clearinghouse and insurance company unless rejections are directly related to the way in which the software is mapping information to the insurance claim.

  • QuickPrint - This method is reserved for users who are contracted to generate claims via QuickPractice's electronic billing services. Whenever an insurance company does not process electronically transmitted insurance claims, this feature can be used to transmit the claim to QuickPractice's servers, where it will then be printed and sent to the carrier from our office. This ensures that the user will never print a claim in their own office.
  • Electronically - This option refers to QuickPractice's QuickBilling service. When this option is selected, claims are generated and then transmitted to QuickPractice's servers and then finally to the insurance carrier without anything ever being printed. To learn more about billing your insurance claims electronically, click here.

 

 

 

 

 

 
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