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Hello,

Is it possible to skip the billing screen after signing my notes, since I do not use AC for practice management?

Thanks

No. If I am reading you correctly, you "Sign-Off" on the progress note (but it is still a live note), you "Sign It" on the next page. Now, you may be looking for the first one to do the same thing, but it can't. Once you sign it, the note is now a saved encounter and can never be changed except by fraudulent means or adding an addendum.

The benefit of signing the note is it is now contained in previously billed. At the top of the main screen you will see a tab called billing and, although we don't use PM either, it is good for my biller to be able to go to that screen or similar ones and see what actual patients were actually seen and billed. You can pull by date or patient.

You can set the date range, so you can sex from January 1, 2016 to today's date and see every patient who was seen. From within the window under Billing, you can select patients seen by physician and/or location.

There is also a VERY helpful thing which this window can help with when information given to your biller on a Superbill does not match with the note coding. I can't recall exactly, but my biller would be able to. I think she scolds me about it all the time.

I used to be in your shoes. Still am in one of your shoes. We use Medware and do nothing with AC billing. But, ICD-10 came along, and became the GREATEST thing in medicine since MiraLax.

I now do all my own coding. I don't leave the room until I have chosen a billable diagnosis. I don't leave the room until I have chosen CPT codes. No more circling a list of codes on the right hand side of the Superbill. Then my biller gets the pile of the paper billing codes. This shows her that these patients have been seen and SHOULD have a progress note. She can't bill them until she sees my code in AC. She can print them all out or she can do it one by one in AC. If one is missing it is due to not entering one of the codes. She knows how to do this.

Also, if your NP or PA is not getting co-signed, the notes won't show up. You basically don't want to bill for a patient who wasn't seen. For instance, I almost always finish my notes during the visit, but if I save it and wait, my biller will get the Superbill and know I did the work, but there is no note to prove it. If she bills, it is insurance fraud.

Finally, and I don't know why it won't let you do this right from the window, but at least the window doesn't dominate the screen (have to be shut before using another window in AC -- which is one great likely unintentional part of AC), she can enter the patient ID (simpler) and scan the note and make sure I documented correctly.

Short answer: No

Long answer: It is actually very helpful

You can do that from main screen - Edit>My Preferences>User Preferences>General Settings> and then check boxes for "Don't display warning that ICD ...." and "Don't display warning that CPT...."
This will STOP billing screen to pop up after you sign your notes.
Hope this will help.

Wow. Never knew that. Thanks.

I Have those CHECKED, yet get the warnings anyway!

You need to log out of your AC and close the program. Restart the program and log back again to make it work.

been there, done that multiple times. Still get the dialog "do you want to delete message . . ." after sending, etc.
Still on 6.6.3 pending 9.x so just living with it

That's the wrong error message. Are you sure you are talking about the same thing?

Hello Bert,

I am using ACPM and not finding much joy at this time. Do you mind to share your experience with Medware offline. Much appreciated.

Akay
Pediatrics - Springfield, MA.

This does not stop the billing screen from appearing, but will allow you to not enter any coding and just click "Sign It" without getting a pop up warning you that you haven't entered any ICD or CPT data.

As Bert has said, you can't just skip this screen, because it is from this screen that you sign the note, closing it out and preventing further edits to the note.

Bert, I was referring to not being able to turn off that message EITHER from user preferences.