Payment Reason

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Payment Reasons are entered in Payment Distributions and indicate why a payment was denied or a payment amount was different than the expected amount.

 

Code

Payment Reason Code.  May be the same code reported by HCFA (CMS) on EOBs

Lookup

Lookup value assigned

Name

Description

 

 

Reason Type

 

Paid

Payment Distributions with this reason on them were claims that were paid

Held

Payment Distributions with this reason on them were claims that were partially paid

Denied

Payment Distributions with this reason on them were claims that were denied

 

 

Send To

 

Followup Manager

Payment Distributions with Reason flagged to go to the Followup Manager will be sent to the Followup Manager for resolution.

Exception Log

Payment Distributions with Reasons flagged as Exceptions may be printed on the Payment Exception Report.

Type

Indicates the HCFA (CMS) Type of Exception.  Values include appeals, coverage problems, enrollment problems, etc.

Library Change Logs

 

The Change Log button at the bottom of any MedSuite Maintenance File will track the following:

 

$ Date Changed - The date the change was made to the file.

$ User Name - The name of the user that made the change.

$ Item Changed - The file name of the item that was changed.

$ Old Value - The system value before the change was made.

$ New Value - The system value after the change was made and saved.

 

NOTE:  Items not tracked are description fields such as degrees and titles.