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I'm very new to Amazing charts so please bear with me if this is answered somewhere else...

After an encounter and I've coded the visit, when I go and try to process the billing, it will only show $0.00 for the billing. When I asked a colleague about this she said that you have to enter it in the admin section under each CPT code. For example, you'd have to enter each and every CPT code and the corresponding charge for it... is there a way to import and populate all the charges at all? For example an excel spreadsheet that already has the standard medicare charges so you can modify it instead of having to entering each and every value in Amazing charts? At least if it was the standardized fees for physicians you could modify it with a multiplier instead of trying to look up every charge and enter it manually.

I think its against the law for someone else to recommend a fee schedule. Unfortunately you have to research your CPT fees yourself thru some available resources like Ingenex Fee Comparison manual, and select the percentile you want to be in. Once you get them entered, Pick your top 100 most used codes to start (usually the ones on your superbill), then whenever you want to apply a % cost of living factor or other increase, you can do it across the board to the whole fee structure from within the administrative options, using your ADMIN user ID, and your PASSWORD that you set up for ADMIN. Hope this helps. :P

Im using the beta ver. so this may not apply to yours but mine only demands a charge be entered once and then it remembers it. If I change it later it will ask if I want the new amount to be the default. Im new at this too, but this seems to be a pretty decent system.

When I first selected AC, I input the fee schedule in the admin section. For codes that are new, I'll have the doctor just input a price in the billing section and, when asked by AC, say yes keep it as the default price for that cpt code. Or, if I know about the code in advance, I'll go set it up in the admin section.

Yes, you need to be a little careful about asking others what to charge. However, you can find out what several other doctors charge, and then select your charges based on "how you feel what you offer is different from what they offer". Or use that overly complicated Relative value formula for Medicare fees, and then apply a multiplier.