Remittance Advice Detail – Outpatient Medicare Accounts

The Remittance Advice Detail page displays some outpatient Medicare account information in the tables shown, as well as links to more information.

  • Click a link in the Service Date column to show which RA(s) includes that line item.
  • Each line item can be included in one, multiple or all RAs.

Field Descriptions—Outpatient Medicare Accounts

The following table describes the fields on the Remittance Advice Detail page for outpatient Medicare accounts. Some of the fields described below might not be displayed on your page. The appearance of fields depends on the type of the account currently showing. (Applicable if FinThrive reprices outpatient Medicare claims for your facility).

Field

Description

Actual Payments

The total insurance and patient payments posted to the accounts, as defined in the data

APC Codes

Ambulatory Payment Classification codes

APC Payments, excluding outliers

Total reimbursement by the Ambulatory Payment Classification, a set of payment rates based on groups of outpatient services rather than on individual services

Billed Units

Number of units billed

Charges

Amount billed by the provider

CPT/HCPC Codes & Modifiers

Associated CPT or HCPCS codes and modifiers

Fee Schedule Payment

Total reimbursement from a fee schedule (Lab, DMEPOS, PEN and therapies)

No.

Sequential reference number of the line item

Pass-through Payment

Total reimbursement for certain high-cost items like implants, high cost drugs and biologicals for which the actual or higher cost is passed through to the payor

Payment Codes

Used to explain the payment of the account; defined in the Remittance Payment Codes table

RA Claim Status

Explanation of the RA claim status code used in the Reimb. column

Reimbursement

Reimbursement type, either expected reimbursement or RA, if applicable (the latest RA is shown if there are multiple RAs)

Remittance Payment Codes

Explanation of the remittance payment code used in the Payment Codes column

Rev Code

Revenue code

Service Date

Date the service was rendered

Status Code

APC payment status code

Total Claim Outlier Amount

Total amount for extraordinarily high cost (cost outlier) for all service dates

Total Co-Payment

Patient’s copay

Total Medicare Payment

Total payment from Medicare

Total Payments, Including Outliers

Total amount from Medicare