Good Faith Estimate

To assist providers with understanding and complying with the No Surprises Act, the American Hospital Association (AHA) has compiled a list of frequently asked questions and provided answers and additional resources for further research. ...

To help practices comply with the requirements of the No Surprises Act, a tool has been developed to assist in generating Good Faith Estimates for your patients. Here is how to access and utilize it: Select the patient On the left men...

  If you would like to read about the Good Faith Estimate Tool, you can access the article here . ...

Here is how you can create a Good Faith Estimate for your patient. Navigate to a patient's chart by navigating to Patients > Patient List or by selecting their name or chart id in the top right of the screen. On the left menu, select Patient...

The Good Faith Estimate tool within DrChrono will allow you to add up to three (3) diagnosis codes to each estimate. You can enter them by ICD-10 code, or by searching by name in the search box. If you do not have a diagn...

 Within the Good Faith Estimate (GFE) tool, there are a couple of places where you can add additional notes that will show on the printed or electronic version of the estimate. Per Item While adding a new charge to the estimate: If n...

If you are adding a provider or facility to your estimate, the tool will ask for their Tax ID (TIN) and NPI. If you do not have them, you can skip over them, but it's highly encouraged to obtain the information to give your patient a complete estim...

Now that you've created the Good Faith Estimate (GFE), it's time to get it to your patient. There are a couple of ways you can do it. You can print from the preview screen. You can send it electronically to their OnPatient account. ...

The No Surprises Act requires that the convening provider add all related expected charges for the service rendered to be included on a single Good Faith Estimate. The DrChrono Good Faith Estimate tool allows you to add providers and faciliti...

Removing a charge from an existing Good Faith Estimate (GFE) is very easy. Navigate to the patient's chart, select Patient Cost Estimator, and identify the estimate you want to update. Press the pencil icon to edit or the trash can to r...

It is possible to rename an estimate if needed. Navigate to the patient's chart, select Patient Cost Estimator , and identify the estimate that you would like to update. Press the three horizontal lines on the right of the screen and s...

There may be a time when during providing the service as described in the estimate, additional services/equipment/supplies are needed that were unexpected when the estimate was created. There is an easy way in the DrChrono Patient Cost Estimat...

After you have created the GFE/estimation document, there is a chance that the patient will say "No, thank you". It's important to mark the decline to keep your records up to date. If a patient does decline an estimate, it's easy in DrChrono to...

If the patient originally declined a Good Faith Estimate and now has changed their mind and wants to move forward, DrChrono offers an easy way to recreate the estimate without having to recreate the entire document.   Here's how: Navigate to...