Professional Billing

Many physicians track, record and "bill" for services rendered, even when employed by Alberta Health Services (AHS) or contracted through alternate reimbursement plans. The Connect Care clinical information system (CIS) supports claims capture, generation of billing reports, submission of claims and adjudication of any funder responses. This includes billings sent to Alberta Health, Workers' Compensation and private insurers.

There are three professional billing relationships that physicians can have with Connect Care, based upon how service claims are documented and how they are managed:

Background

Further information about who qualifies for each of the three professional billing relationships is available in short summaries and an online resource.

Manual Sections

Billing Codes

More Information

Professional billing is the topic of one of the Connect Care Optimization Clinic themes, with updates to the prescriber update blogging channels: