Check Client Insurance Eligibility

Permissions: Organization Administration Permissions are required to enable eligibility checks.
Billing Permissions are required to run individual and batch eligibility checks.

Insurance Eligibility Checks

Our integration with Change Healthcare provides the ability to run insurance eligibility checks to:

• Confirm eligibility instantly while onboarding a new client.
• Run checks individually in the client's profile.
• Batch check everyone with an upcoming appointment to know if their current insurance is still valid or if it needs to be updated.
• Check primary and secondary payers.

Jump to: [Enable Insurance Eligibility Checks]  [Individual Insurance Eligibility Checks]  [Batch Insurance Eligibility Checks]

Enable Insurance Eligibility Checks

Insurance Eligibility Checks must first be enabled.

NOTE: You must have an active subscription to Change Healthcare Clearinghouse to enable Eligibility Checks.

1. Access the Organization.
2. Click Claims Service .
3. Click the Eligibility Checks tab.
4. Toggle Enable insurance eligibility checks to On.
   

   NOTE: click turned off when customers fail to pay their eligibility invoices to prohibit use of the eligibility checker.

   
   
   

Individual Insurance Eligibility Checks

Eligibility checks can be run on individual clients by staff with Billing permissions.

1. Access the Clients tab.
2. Find the desired client and click Client Name to display Client Details.
3. Click Bill to & Insurance on the left navigation.
4. Scroll down to the Manage Insurance section.
5. Click Actions and select Run Eligibility Check. Client insurance eligibility result is displayed.

Batch Insurance Eligibility Checks

Batch Insurance Eligibility Checks may be made to verify client insurance eligibility prior to upcoming appointments. 

1. Access the Billing tab.
2. Select Batch Eligibility. The Batch Eligibility Checks page is displayed.
3. Select the the desired date range for Upcoming Appointments.
4. A table is displayed showing:
• Client - search for an Individual Client using the box at the top of the column. 
• Next Appointment Date - next scheduled appointment in the calendar.
• Insurance - name of the insurance company.
• Type - indicates primary, secondary or tertiary insurance for the client. If the client has three providers, the client will appear in the table 3 times. Select each entry to check eligibility for all providers for a client.
• Last Checked - date last insurance eligibility check was run.
• Eligibility - status as of Last Checked date.
5. Select all or multiple clients.
6. Click Run Checks on Selected Clients.