| Insurance billing software programs are accounts | | | | your practice, claims for Medicare, Medicaid, Blue |
| receivable, insurance billing, and practice management. | | | | Cross/Blue Shield, and commercial insurance may be |
| Any good packages will deliver state-of-the-art | | | | submitted through a clearinghouse. Make sure that |
| features that are easy to use and work like a | | | | the program is compatible with Medisoft Electronic |
| healthcare practice's manual accounting system. | | | | Claims Direct software to send electronic claims |
| The program should include open item accounting | | | | directly to selected insurance carriers |
| that allows easy to match payments to individual | | | | Always remember that any billing software that you |
| charges, so that you will know what has or has not | | | | purchase is only as good as the customer service |
| been paid. Patient ledgers will show complete account | | | | and support it receives. There should always be |
| activity including charges, payments, and account | | | | technical support on hand to answer questions that |
| adjustments. A patient and insurance aging report | | | | you may have. Tech support is especially valuable |
| easily marks past-due patient and insurance | | | | when there emerges a technical glitch in the |
| payments. | | | | insurance billing software that you cannot |
| The program must be able to stores information for | | | | troubleshoot on your own. Also, if you can get some |
| billing every type of health insurance including private | | | | kind of assurance as to the quality and duration of |
| commercial insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, worker's | | | | the software, all the better. You may have to pay |
| compensation, auto insurance for personal injury | | | | more for tech support and guarantees, but the |
| cases, and many others. Depending on the location of | | | | investment could be worth it. |