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Posted by Victoria in Medical Claims Processing | comments
It has never been a cakewalk working with an EHR. You know how tough it can be, if you don’t have an eClinicalWorks expert to help you with billing needs. What do you do when you are not aware of a certain feature or a procedure?
We reached out to some organizations to know how what they did to find a solution to their problem.
Here are the top answers we would like to list down:
We have received inquiries on how to bill medicaid/medicare secondary claims using eClinicalworks EHR?
There have been many cases where organizations have reported that they suffer clearing house rejections due to secondary claims.
Related: 6 Simple steps to create secondary claims using eClinicalWorks!
You got frustrated with your clearing house and decided to send the paper claims and your secondary claim was denied. There could be other reasons for claim denials from the payer but, you might have missed to send a COB (Co-ordination of benefits) OR for the other reasons.
Your secondary claims were rejected and a kind of an error message from the clearing house which states the secondary identifier qualifier must be a valid one. You called your clearing house, EMR and payer but didn’t get to hear anything.
Suppose Medicare/Medicaid is a secondary insurance and you used a wrong code. Clearing house denies your claim. It is certainly a 5010 issue. But insurance eligibility verification is equally important.
When do you know Medicare is secondary?
These Type codes will help you know if your patient has a Medicare Secondary:
Type 12: An aged employee or spouse who’s employer has a group health plan of greater than twenty employees.
Type 13: A patient has coverage under an End State Renal Disease coordination period for the first thirty months.
Type 14 or 47: Patient has a no fault plan, includes liability or auto claims
Type 15: Patient has a worker’s compensation claim
Type 42: One who is under a VA (veteran administration) plan but has been seen in VA facility or a VA doctor
Type 43: Patient is disabled and the employer group plan has more than 100 employees
Before you proceed with billing secondary claims,
If you wish to differentiate between the primary and secondary claims, you can sign up with an MSP account
And most important information which is usually missed out:
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What if I have an eCW expert to walk you through six simple steps to submit secondary claims using eClinicalWorks EHR?
Let’s learn the step by step procedure for billing secondary claims through eClinicalWorks in our next article.
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