Bill Encounters Job
You can create the job to charge the rebilled or unbilled encounters and print or export the Claim Production report.
| Field | Description |
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| Bill Status | Indicates the billing status of the encounters. This displays the following values:
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| Financial Class | Indicates the financial classes for the encounter. |
| Primary Payer | Indicates the individual primary payer for billing encounters based on which the job processes claims. |
| Billable Date From/To | Indicates the billable date range within which the job automatically bills encounters. |
| Rendering Physician | Indicates one or more referring physicians. |
| Patient Type | Indicates the patient types for the encounter. This field displays the following values:
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| Service Location | Indicates one or more service locations for the encounter. |
| Include Records in a Billing Hold? | Indicate whether you want the job to include encounter records in a Billing Hold status or not. |
| Include Records Without Charges? | Indicate whether you want the job to include encounter records that do not have charges or not. |
| Encounter Specific | To focus the job on specific encounters, select an encounter-specific field in the pop-up window. Enter a value for the field. |
| Encounter Created By | To focus the job on encounters created by a specific user, select a user listed in this field. |
| Encounter Date From/To | Select the From and To date to indicate the encounter creation date range within which the job automatically bills encounters. |
| Charge Created By | To focus the job on encounters with charges created by a specific user, select a user listed in this field. |
| Charge Create Date From/To | Select the From and To date to indicate the charge creation date range within which the job automatically bills encounters. |
| Charge Batch Info | When charges are entered for an encounter, there is a free text field that enables information about the charges to be entered. You can set the NextGen® Background Business Processor application to locate encounters that have a specific Chg Batch Info text attached. Enter the text you want to match in this field. |
| Itemized Bills: Printer Name | Indicates the printer to which you want the job to print itemized bills.
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| Claim Production Status Report: Printer Name | If you indicated that you want the Claim Production Status report sent to the printer, identify the printer you want to use. |
| Claim Production Status Report: Export Format | If you indicated that you want the Claim Production Status report exported, identify the file format you want the job to use. |
| Claim Production Status Report: Export File Name | If you indicated that you want the Claim Production Status report exported, enter the file name for the exported file that you want the job to use. You can include a date part or counter token in the file name. Tokens are variables that the application replaces with the current date and time or an incremental counter value. |
| Claim Production Status Report: Export Overwrite Option | If you indicated that you want the Claim Production Status report exported:
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| Claim Production Status Report: E-mail Export File To | If you indicated that you want the Claim Production Status report exported, you can set NextGen® Background Business Processor to send a copy of the report to recipients. Enter the email addresses for the recipients you want to receive the file. Separate each email address by a comma. |
| Claim Production Status Report: Save Snapshot | Indicates whether you want the application to take a snapshot of the report. |
| Claim Production Status Report: Snapshot Name | Enter the name that you want the application to give the report snapshot. |
| Include encounters pending approvals | Indicates whether you want the job to include encounters with transactions that are still awaiting approval. |
| Job runtime alert setting (minutes) | Indicates the length of time that must pass before the application issues a runtime alert. |
| Job runtime alert email | Enter the email address to which you want the application to send the runtime alert. |