Our software was set up before my time. Over the years we have had some issues with box 48 & box 53, but for the most part no issues.
Recently, we had claims initially sent electronically that needed to be corrected, printed to paper & sent to the payor for correction. They were returned because the "treating dentist" was not listed in box 53, the group was. I called the Clearing House(ClaimX) first and was told the treating dentist was listed correctly in box 53 on their end-so the issue occurred when it was printed to paper. I made a call to Practice works and they pulled up the doctor from the employee field and it was listed as the group name instead & he fixed that. What I don't understand is how they are going out correctly electronically and not on paper?
Another issue is that some of the claims were printing with the Group info in box 48 yet some with the Treating dentist. Even when it lists the group, the correct NPI was not attached and the treating dentist license number was populating. We bill as a group & get paid as a group. Support was able to offer a fix for that by creating an employee named "group" , selecting that in a drop down menu and we tested it. Before this change was made, since some claims were printing with the group without having to do this step, so is there another area that defaults from besides the employee menu?
