Manually Sending Individual Claims to Carriers
This section explains how to send individual claims to carriers manually in AcuityLogic Billing.
Topics include the following:
- Search for a claim that you want to bill. See Searching for Claims.
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If the claim does not have the status Ready to Bill, set the status to Ready to Bill. See Setting Claim Status to Ready to Bill.
- From the Search Claims window, select one of the following from the Action drop-down list of the claim that you want to bill:
The claim status changes to Billed, and the CMS 1500 form opens as a PDF file in a new window.
All the information that populates the form appears, but the lines and boxes on the form are not visible.
- To print the PDF to a CMS 1500 form, click Print.
- To print the form properly in Firefox, configure your browser to use the external default Adobe Reader instead of the built-in Adobe PDF Viewer.
- For all browsers, select to print the actual size of the form.
- Send the printed form to the carrier.
- Open the Claim Detail window for a claim that you want to bill. See To open the claim detail window.
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If the claim does not have the status Ready to Bill, set the status to Ready to Bill. See Setting Claim Status to Ready to Bill.
- Click Generate CMS Form.
The Generate CMS Form window opens.
- If you are printing the contents of the CMS 1500 form directly on the CMS 1500 form, select the Select if you are using preprinted Form check box.
All the information that populates the form will print, but the lines and boxes will not print.
- Click Bill Carrier.
The claim status changes to Billed, and the CMS 1500 form opens as a PDF file in a new window.
- To print the PDF file to a CMS 1500 form, click Print.
- Send the printed form to the carrier.