837 Health Care Claim Adjustment Posting
Note - These testing guidelines assume the user is skilled in the use of, at a minimum, the following:
- 837 Health Care Claim Professional
- Registry Settings (PM)
- 837 Health Care Claim Institutional
Scenario 1: '837 Health Care Claim Professional' - Verification of Claim/Service Adjustment Filing
Specific Setup:
- Avatar MSO Registry Setting 'Add Support For The Input Of Third Party Payer Amounts' must be enabled (set to '2')
- Avatar MSO Registry Setting 'Adjudicate Batches' must be enabled (set to '2')
- 'Crystal Reports' or other SQL reporting tool
- 837 Professional format inbound file for compilation and posting including one or more valid claims/services with adjustment information included
Steps
- Open '837 Health Care Claim Professional' form.
- Select 'Load File' in the 'Options' field.
- Enter file path for inbound 837 Professional format file and click 'Process' button.
- Select 'Compile File' in the 'Options' field, and select loaded 837 Professional file.
- Click 'Process' button.
- In 837 Professional Compile Report, ensure that claim/services are successfully compiled.
- Select 'Post File' in the 'Options' field, and select compiled 837 Professional file.
- Click 'Process' button.
- In 837 Professional Post Report, ensure that claim/services are successfully posted.
- Open 'Claim Processing (CMS 1500)' form.
- Select claims processing batch created via 837 Professional inbound posting.
- Navigate to 'Service Detail' section of form.
- Select service row and click 'Edit Service Information' to view service detail.
- Click the 'Enter Third Party Adjudication Data' button to view Third Party Payment/Other Healthcare Coverage information for selected service.
- Within Third Party Payment/Other Healthcare Coverage information display, click 'View' button to display/view Service Adjustment entries for selected service/Third Party Payment information.
- Confirm that service adjustment (CAS) values from 837 Professional inbound claim/service are displayed and present for selected service.
- Open 'Crystal Reports' or other SQL reporting tool.
- In Avatar MSO SQL table 'SYSTEM.mso_claim_adjustments', ensure that service adjustment(s) for posted 837 Professional claims/services is/are present in SQL table data.
Scenario 2: '837 Health Care Claim Institutional' - Verification of Claim/Service Adjustment Filing
Specific Setup:
- Avatar MSO Registry Setting 'Add Support For The Input Of Third Party Payer Amounts' must be enabled (set to '2')
- Avatar MSO Registry Setting 'Adjudicate Batches' must be enabled (set to '2')
- 'Crystal Reports' or other SQL reporting tool
- 837 Institutional format inbound file for compilation and posting including one or more valid claims/services with adjustment information included
Steps
- Open '837 Health Care Claim Institutional ' form.
- Select 'Load File' in the 'Options' field.
- Enter file path for inbound 837 Institutional format file and click 'Process' button.
- Select 'Compile File' in the 'Options' field, and select loaded 837 Institutional file.
- Click 'Process' button.
- In 837 Institutional Compile Report, ensure that claim/services are successfully compiled.
- Select 'Post File' in the 'Options' field, and select compiled 837 Institutional file.
- Click 'Process' button.
- In 837 Institutional Post Report, ensure that claim/services are successfully posted.
- Open 'Claim Processing (UB-04)' form.
- Select claims processing batch created via 837 Institutional inbound posting.
- Navigate to 'Service Detail' section of form.
- Select service row and click 'Edit Service Information' to view service detail.
- Click the 'Enter Third Party Adjudication Data' button to view Third Party Payment/Other Healthcare Coverage information for selected service.
- Within Third Party Payment/Other Healthcare Coverage information display, click 'View' button to display/view Service Adjustment entries for selected service/Third Party Payment information.
- Confirm that service adjustment (CAS) values from 837 Institutional inbound claim/service are displayed and present for selected service.
- Open 'Crystal Reports' or other SQL reporting tool.
- In Avatar MSO SQL table 'SYSTEM.mso_claim_adjustments', ensure that service adjustment(s) for posted 837 Institutional claims/services is/are present in SQL table data.
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Topics
• 837 Health Care Claim Professional
• Claims Processing
• NX
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