DVA Allied Health Billing

DVA Allied Health Billing

DVA Allied Health Billing

DVA provides Allied Health Specialist fees and these can be downloaded into Impulse.
Impulse Billing supports the following Allied Health Billing, Allied Health [ providers under this general group], Optical,Psych,Speech pathology

Set up\Provider Location
This will govern the type of DVA Allied Health Billing being done and transmitted to Medicare.
  1. Click Add
  2. Select Location
  3. Select provider
  4. Provider type: Speciallist
  5. Provider Subtype:
  6. L = Optical 
  7. I = Speech Pathology 
  8. J = Allied 
  9. K = Psych
  10. Enter Provider Number
  11. Select bank account
  12. Payee provider: Default Payee
  13. Select Invoice header
  14. Tick Under DVA arrangement
  15. Presently active
  16. Allow Billing
  17. Tick To Save

DVA Allied Health Billing
  1. Patient Details
  2. Patient search F5, or Add New Patient if working from this screen F6
  3. Enter patient demographic details.
  4. F2 Saves details
Patient card
  1. Click Tab 1 [cards]
  2. Click Add Button
  3. Click ADD
  4. Card Group: System
  5. Card Type: Veteran Affairs - All Conditions
  6. Enter Card Number, IRN1
  7. Enter Expiry Date
  8. Select Entitlement: Gold
  9. Tick To save.
Verify DVA Card is Eligible.
  1. Click PVV: DVA card must be eligible
Enter Referring Doctor
Click Tab 4 [RefDocs]
  1. Click ADD
  2. List of patients Referring Doctors will Be on screen to Select, or add new Referring Doctor and Select.
  3. Select Location and Provider
  4. Enter Referral issue date [Date on Referral letter]
  5. Select Referral period
  6. Click Save
F8 Bill patient
  1. Double click in any box opens that option to add details
  2. Select Location [must be hospital location]
  3. Select provider
  4. Select Service date
  5. F Type: VR
  6. Enter Item Number
  7. Referral should populate or Click In Referral Details to Add or Select Referral
  8. Down arrow for next row of billing
  9. Save
Voucher will be in Medicare Claims\Unprocessed\VA

Transmit to Medicare
Medicare Claims\Unprocessed\VA
  1. Click 1_Process [bottom left hand corner]
Processed view: Select Voucher
  1. Click 1_Close[bottom left hand corner]
  2. Select Online
Waiting Tx:  Click Transmit [bottom left hand corner]
  1. Claim is Transmitted to Medicare as VAA Claim with Service code entered in Provider Location..

Payment and Processing reports
Medicare\Claims\VA
Waiting Report 
Click Request Report [bottom left hand corner]
Reported  will go to Reported view when processing and payment reports retrieved from Medicare.
Rejections will go to Action File.


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