Manitoba WCB Claim Cards

Date of Tech Note: 20 Sep 1999
Enhancement: 20 Sep 1999
Bug Fix: N/A

Description

The Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba has a special claim card that needs to be sent in to receive payments. MediFile will print out the claim cards on a laser printer’s plain paper. We are looking into also giving the option of printing these out on a dot matrix printer on the forms provided by WCB. We will do this once we have the laser option working.

The advantage of the laser option is that they can be printed from any computer, is much faster, quieter, and of better quality. Printing to a dot matrix printer requires that you print the forms from a computer attached to the the dot matrix printer. The advantage of the dot matrix printer is that it prints on the forms provided by WCB.

This note describes how to print out the claim cards to a laser printer.

Detail

To print out the claims you need to be in the Administration corner page one --> Billing File. From the Productivity menu select Custom reports. Once there select MB WCB Claim Cards.



Click on the Select button.

MediFile will now search for all billing records where the Agency = “WCB” and where the status = “ToMail”.

SEARCH([Billing];[Billing]Agency="WCB";*)
SEARCH([Billing]; & ;[Billing]Status="ToMail")

If no records are found, MediFile will alert you to this, and nothing more will happen.

If records are found, MediFile sorts the billing records as follows:

[Billing]Patient_ID;>
[Billing]BillAccount;>
[Billing]DateSeen;>
[Billing]ClaimNumber;<

It sorts them this way so that the billings will go on the claim cards in the correct order. It will then beable to place multiple billings on the same claim card if they are for the same patient and doctor.

NOTE: At any time during printing you can stop the process by pressing Command - Period (Control - Period on a Windows Computer).


After processing all the billing records, MediFile changes the status of each of the billings to “Mailed”.

MediFile will go through all the billing records and place the information on the WCB claim cards as necessary. If an invoice number has already been issued for that billing it will be used. If it has not, one will be issued at this time. If the billing does not have a claim number the claim number issued for this claim card will be used for all the billings on that claim card.

Three claim cards will be printed on each page.