SWITCHING MADE SIMPLE: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO SWITCHING CLEARING HOUSES

There are so many clearing houses out there, which do you choose?

Bushido Billing, in partnership with The JaneApp EHR Software, has developed a checklist and short video on how to make this transition as smooth as possible! Follow the steps and tips below to ensure a successful and smooth transition:

Step 1: Choose a clearing house and which plan works best for your budget. There are so many out there including: Trizetto, Office Ally, ClaimMD, Infinedi, APEX, Availity, and many more.

•  A few things to consider when choosing would be: does it integrate with your software? Does it offer add on services you want/need such as verifications or claim corrections? Is it user friendly for your billing specialist?

Step 2: Check that all of your business information is up-to-date between your software and insurance contracts. If your address has changed and is not updated with the insurance, you will want to make sure that the claims going out of your software, to your clearing house, matches what you are enrolled with.

Step 3: Start your ERA and EDI enrollments! Complete all the enrollment forms for each payer you would like ERA (electronic EOB’s). Your EDI Enrollments will vary but are typically for Medicare and Medicaid and allow you to send claims to those payers. It’s important to note that you must have EDI enrollments approved and notified to your clearing house before you can submit any of these claims.

•   There’s a ton of tips and tricks attached to this blog in the webinar video about proper ways to enroll with ERA and EDI as well as tips and tricks to minimize the rejections of those forms!

Step 4: Start submitting claims!