Bill types dimension

This dimension captures the bill type for the primary insurance claim upon final bill drop for the encounter. Codes and descriptions will generally match your organization's source systems and data standards. Bill types may also comply with regulatory requirements in some cases, for example, CMS Medicare claims.

Accessing the Bill Type dimension

From the Enterprise Decision Support home page, in the Data control section, select Maintain data > Encounter dimensions > Bill types.

Filtering records

To filter records

  1. Select the funnel icon in the upper left corner of the page.

  2. In the Filter box, you can narrow down the records to appear by selecting or creating a filter using the Filter Wizard. To access the Filter Wizard, select Edit. If you are familiar with writing filter statements, you can enter the statement syntax directly in the Filter box.
  3. Select Apply.

Adding, editing, or deleting a bill type

To add, edit, or delete bill types in this dimension, you must download the table to make your changes, and then upload the table to load the changes into the Axiom database. For instructions, see Editing a dimension using a spreadsheet.

Column descriptions

This section provides descriptions for each column in the table:

NOTE: The table may display some columns that are related to other Syntellis products, or have been created specifically for your organization. Contact your Syntellis Implementation Consultant or Syntellis Support if you need help with these columns.

BillTypeID - Axiom ID associated with the bill type.

BillType - Bill type code that represents the primary insurance claim for the encounter. This must be an alphanumeric field.

The system will not let you save the table if an entry includes one or more of the following:

  • More than the maximum allowed characters
  • Contains one of these characters: \\ / < > : ? | * ' \"
  • Begins with + - =.

Description - Description of the bill type.

TIP: To help make reports more readable, we recommend that you do not use all capital letters in the description content.