Charge Capture

Capturing charges properly is a critical process to providers. It drives contract negotiation, billing, and cost containment initiatives. Proper charge capture is a necessary step in compliant and patient friendly billing.

A Charge Capture Process should be paramount to a provider’s revenue cycle management program to keep its integrity. Providers should be conducting routine assessments of the charge capture process, weaknesses should be operationally fixed, and routine audits should be made to validate the fixes.

Provider Consulting Solutions, Inc. (PCS) can help. PCS offers a full range of services and tools to identify and address charging, billing, and coding issues.

Our Sentinel™ software products target potential charging, coding, and compliance problems through a series of focused edits and reports based on our extensive field experience and knowledge base of coding and reimbursement rules. Appropriate reimbursement starts with appropriate Charge Capture:

Analyze the entire revenue cycle process from admission to remittance Identify potential vulnerabilities Screen Charge Description Master (CDM) Benchmarking Conduct department surveying and interviews Review Order Entry/Encounter forms Verify remittance