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Automated charge processing streamlines data entry.

W T Adams·G M Snow·P M Helmick
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A healthcare organization can significantly improve its billing office's performance by implementing an automated charge-processing system that integrates scanning technology with hospital and physician office billing systems. Such a system offers large healthcare organizations a means to eliminate costly and inefficient manual processing of paper charge sheets, thereby improving productivity and accuracy. An automated charge-processing system allows a billing department to automatically post, track, monitor, control, and reconcile all charges through a central database. To implement the system, a healthcare organization should assemble a project team composed of representatives from information services, the software supplier, and the organization's business offices. The team will be responsible for setting up the system; designing an easily scannable, standard charge form; establishing the rules the system will follow for posting charges; and designing billing office reports.

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W T Adams, G M Snow, P M Helmick. 2000. Automated charge processing streamlines data entry.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10915364/

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