I forgot to mention that our office does not accept insurance. Patients pay at the time of their visit - which makes it even more important for us to have a superbill ready for the patient.
Would you guys recommend we continue to use paper? The only other ideas I came up with are:
1) Create superbill before-hand (using "create new superbill" from the patient account section) and date it for the date of the visit - manually enter the CPT & ICD-9 codes. Then when the encounter is signed, elect to not create a new superbill. If the patient cancels or does not show for their appointment, however, the superbill cannot be deleted.
2) Prematurely sign the chart to generate the superbill. Then make edits to the Most Recent Encounter later modifying the Chief Complaint to say something like "FINAL", then re-sign the chart again without creating a new superbill. This makes two entries in the "Past Encounter" section for that date.
What does anybody think?
Thanks again,
S.K.
