Electronic Remittance Advice

The Edimis, Inc. ERA module will automatically post your Medicare remittance advice. Instead of manually posting your Medicare payments and adjustments, the carrier will place an electronic version of the EOB in your electronic claims mailbox.

The ERA module will "read" the electronic copy of the EOB and post the payment and adjustments to each patient's account. This will give your staff more time to work accounts receivable and patient collections. This is an optional module.

Using the ERA module does not require the use of the "Direct Deposit" option for the receipt of Medicare or Medicaid payments. When the paper check & EOB arrive in the office, the staff locate the HIPAA compliant ANSI 835 file that corresponds to the paper check and the system will post it that date, but automatically note the actual date and check number assigned by Medicare or Medicaid.

The ERA module posts the payments to the individual line items by assigning each claim and each line item a unique "serial number" that is reported within the electronic payment file from the carrier. This has eliminated the opportunity for the system to post payments to the wrong date of service, a problem that plagued the pre-HIPAA ERA modules.

 

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