Generate the Missing Billing Report

NextGen Behavioral Health Suite Help 5.5

Generate the Templates with No Documentation Report

You can generate a report indicating when a NextGen® Behavioral Health Suite billing template has been started and saved to an encounter but no document has been saved to the encounter. The Templates with No Documentation report is run for all patient encounters and can be run for all providers or filtered for a selected provider. Note: You must configure this report prior to generating the file for the first time. From the File menu, select Reports and then Crystal Reports. Expand the All encounters for All Patient section. Select Templates with no document. Select Preview. Select a provider or ***All Provider***. Select OK. The report opens. Parent topic: Charges

NextGen Behavioral Health Suite Help 5.5

Charges

You use the Charges panel to bill for services rendered during the encounter. Your practice can configure SIM codes to be available based on practice, payer/contract, location, licensure, template name in the BH Foundation Configuration template. For more information, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community and download the Configuration Guide for NextGen® Behavioral Health Suite. If the service will not be billed, you can select the No Billing for Service checkbox. With the checkbox selected, you can skip the billing fields and “No Billing for Service” displays on the generated document. The Provider and Credential fields are read-only fields. The Provider field displays the name of the provider the current user is associated to in System Administrator. A provider with the relationship of Self has their own name displaying in the Provider field. A user associated to a provider in System Administrator has the associated provider’s name displaying. If the provider field is blank, the

File Maintenance Help for NextGen® Enterprise 8

Receiving and Applying Charges from NextGen® Enterprise EHR

When the Suppress Billing option is not selected in the Service Item Library Maintenance window in File Maintenance or in NextGen® Enterprise EHR, unapplied encounter credits for charges entered for a patient in NextGen® Enterprise EHR generate automatically in NextGen® Enterprise PM. The information in the field associated with each charge is carried over from NextGen® Enterprise EHR to NextGen® Enterprise PM. When charges are sent from NextGen® Enterprise EHR, the charges enter NextGen® Enterprise PM in one of the following methods: Automatically applied. When the holding tank is Off and the charges coming from NextGen® Enterprise EHR have an unapplied encounter credit, a batch with an ID of AUCR is automatically created. Placed in the holding tank until the users manually accept each charge. When the holding tank is On, a batch is not automatically created. You must have an active batch in NextGen® Enterprise PM so that the charges can be applied when you accept the charges either m

NextGen Behavioral Health Suite Help 5.5

Billed in Error

You use the Billed in Error process to void or delete a service code/charge when it is submitted from NextGen® Enterprise EHR in error. These are a few examples of when it is appropriate to use Billed in Error: Wrong Service Code was billed Service Code was billed on wrong date of service Service Code was billed in wrong patient chart Charges panel Billed in Error only appears when the selected charge line was entered by the current prescriber or provider, as indicated above the patient info bar, and only when the current Clinician has sufficient rights (View, Add, Update, Delete, Print) to the Charges module.. The Billed in Error process is designed to delete or void the charge in NextGen® Enterprise PM as well. For the charges to be removed in NextGen® Enterprise PM, they must be in an unbilled encounter status and have no transaction (Auto Adjustment, Payment, or Adjustment) associated with the charge. If the charges have already been billed or a transaction applied to them, the Bil

Help Guide for NextGen® Enterprise PM 8

Process NextGen® Enterprise EHR Charges from Reports

You can process procedures from NextGen® Enterprise EHR that are in the pending charges holding tank in NextGen® Enterprise PM from the EHR Manual Charge Processing Pending report. You can process charges for one encounter at a time. Open NextGen® Enterprise PM. From the Reports menu, select General, and then select EHR Manual Charge Processing–Pending. The NextGen Report Filter window opens. Filter the report to include the desired charges. Filter 1: Enter a charge Create Date range or leave blank for charges created on any date. Locations: Select one or more charge Service Locations or leave blank for charges from any location. Select OK. The Report Preview window opens. Double-click the patient’s encounter. The Encounters tab on the Patient Chart opens. Right-click the selected encounter and select Charges from the menu. The Charge Posting window opens with a message. Do one of the following: Select Process to accept the charges. The charges are removed from the pending charges hold

NextGen® Enterprise EHR Help

Bill All Charges on a Case to One Encounter

All charges throughout the course of a case can be associated with a particular encounter. Each charge does not have to be submitted on a separate encounter if the original encounter is in locked status. A practice can consolidate all procedures on one encounter for billing. Other encounters used to document care over the course of treatment can be marked as clinical only to support clinical documentation. They do not appear in NextGen® Enterprise PM. Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes can be added, modified, or deleted against a locked encounter in this manner: In File Maintenance, select the following Practice Preferences on the Encounters tab: Enable In Progress Billing status Allow Execution of EHR procedure trigger against locked encounter Note: You must select the Enable In Progress Billing status check box first to enable selection of the Allow Execution of EHR procedure trigger against locked encounter check box. After you turn on Enable In Progress Billing status, you

Generate the Missing Billing Report

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Generate the Templates with No Documentation Report

Charges

Receiving and Applying Charges from NextGen® Enterprise EHR

Billed in Error

Process NextGen® Enterprise EHR Charges from Reports

Bill All Charges on a Case to One Encounter

Generate the Templates with No Documentation Report

Charges

Receiving and Applying Charges from NextGen® Enterprise EHR

Billed in Error

Process NextGen® Enterprise EHR Charges from Reports

Bill All Charges on a Case to One Encounter