Good Faith Estimate

Questions about the No Surprises Act 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...

Good Faith Estimate Tool 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: Navigate t...

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

Creating a new Good Faith Estimate 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 Cost Estimator  ...

Adding / Editing Diagnosis Codes 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. ...

Adding Notes to an Estimate 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 n...

Finding a Provider's NPI 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 gi...

Delivering an Estimate 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 t...

Adding Providers and/or Facilities to an Estimate 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 ...

Removing a Charge from an Estimate 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. Click on the...

Renaming an Estimate The short answer is, yes, absolutely! Navigate to the patient's chart, select Patient Cost Estimator , and identify the estimate that you would like to update. Click on the three horizontal lines on the rig...

Adding Charges After the Service is Rendered 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. ...

Patient Declines the Estimate 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 declin...

Resurrect a Declined Estimate 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 docum...