Create Anesthesia Claims Batch

On the Main Menu, click Claims. Under CHARGE ENTRY, click Anesthesia Time Sheet Batches. On the Manage Anesthesia Time Sheet Batches page, click view/edit for a batch that shows claims not yet created. On the Create Anesthesia Claims Worklist, click Create all claims at the top of the Task Bar.

Your practice must have the Anesthesia Billing feature enabled, and you must have the Anesthesia: Time Sheet Edit role.

1. Display the Manage Anesthesia Time Sheet Batches page: On the Main Menu, click Claims. Under CHARGE ENTRY, click Anesthesia Time Sheet Batches.
2. Under the Open Time Sheet Batches heading in the Workspace, click view/edit for a batch that shows claims not yet created in the Status column.
   The Create Anesthesia Claims Worklist appears in the Task Bar.
   
3. Click Create all claims at the top of the Task Bar.
   The Create Anesthesia Claims Batch page appears in the Workspace.
   Note: On the Create Anesthesia Claims Batch page, you can see how units are calculated by pausing your cursor over the units (in the U column).
   
4. Insurance — Select the correct insurance, which can be an insurance package or a case policy. The default value is the patient's current primary insurance.
   Note: When you change the primary insurance, the procedure modifiers, units, and charges (which are based on anesthesia billing settings) are updated automatically. athenaOne highlights these changes in yellow.
5. Click Approve All to approve all charges.
   Note: If you decide not to create claims for all the charges in this batch, you can click OK for each charge (row) that you want to approve.
6. Click Create Claims to create claims for the charges that you approved.

The Create Anesthesia Claims Batch page reappears in the Workspace, with the new claim number and claim status under the Claim column. The Create Anesthesia Claims Worklist in the Task Bar has links to the created claims. The worklist is now organized to show claim status, so that you can work claims that are holding for front-end claim rules within the time sheet workflow.

On this page:

• Each patient appears in a separate row. Charges are listed on a per-patient basis, so that cases with split charges or non-anesthesia services appear in the same patient row.
• Rows shaded red indicate that the time sheet entry is incomplete and a charge cannot be created. You cannot approve this row with the OK checkbox or the Approve All button. Click the CPT link in the Procedure column to complete the time sheet entry.

athenaOne assumes that services rendered by the same provider should be reported together on the same claim when athenaOne generates claims from an anesthesia time sheet. For example, non-anesthesia cases are linked to a time-based anesthesia case performed by the same rendering provider in a parent-child relationship. On the Create Anesthesia Claims Worklist, time sheet entries that are translated together onto the same claim share the same create claim link.