Setting Up and Activating Insurance Plans

Encompass provides a list of preconfigured insurance carriers and plans.

To make a plan available in Front Office, you first need to activate it. Once you activate a carrier and plan, you can select them from the Carrier Name and Plan Name fields in the Add Insurance window in Front Office.

1. From the menu, select Billing & MVC and then Carrier & Plan Setup.
2. Enter the Carrier/Plan you want to activate.
3. Click Search.
4. Locate the plan you want to activate and select the Active check box.
5. If you want to include PQRS Physician Quality Reporting System, formerly the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI). A program organized by the CMS that awards incentive payments to eligible professionals (EPs) who satisfactorily report data on quality measures for covered professional services furnished to Medicare Part B beneficiaries during one year. The PQRS is not the same as the EHR Incentive Program, although there is some overlap between the two programs. The program ran from 2007 to 2016 and was replaced by MIPS in 2017. codes on claims for this plan, select the PQRS check box.
6. Click Save.