Hospital Discharge-to-Bill Exception Tracker | Revenue Integrity Excel Control
Hospital Discharge-to-Bill Exception Tracker | Revenue Integrity Excel Control
Digital download · Review the preview, included files, software and license below before checkout.
See the handoff behind an unreleased bill
A discharge can leave a hospital while coding, charge evidence, or bill release remains unresolved. This Excel control puts the open dependency, accountable role, and next internal action on one line per episode. Designed for revenue integrity, patient financial services, coding, and billing leaders at acute, community, academic, rural, and critical access hospitals.
What you get
- Editable 100-row blank Tracker with nonidentifying episode aliases and setting.
- Discharge, coding, charge, and bill-release dates plus calendar-day measures.
- Blocker, responsible role, next action date, follow-up state, and source evidence reference.
- Clearly fictional Example, in-file Guide, and one-page PDF Quick Start.
Why a manager uses it
Reconstructing the sequence from separate work queues takes time. An explicit owner and action date lets the team review unreleased episodes in one place and check date anomalies against source systems. Compare elapsed days and unresolved items over comparable periods to assess whether your handoffs improve. These measures are not recovered revenue or payer-deadline determinations.
Scope and license
Downloadable ZIP with one .xlsx workbook and one PDF. Designed for desktop Microsoft Excel using standard formulas and dropdowns; no macros or EHR integration. Use only aggregate or properly de-identified local information. This administrative aid does not audit coding, claims, payer policy, or clinical care and does not guarantee faster billing or collections. One purchasing organization may adapt the files for its internal operations; resale or multi-client deployment requires a separate license.
Put one owner and one next action on each unresolved handoff.
See the fictional workflow
- A fictional episode is entered with discharge, coding, charge and bill-release checkpoints.
- The worklist shows the blocker, accountable role and next action date for unresolved release work.
- The team verifies the date sequence and evidence in the source system.
Preview shows the actual included workbook with fictional data. It is an operational example, not a financial outcome or a live patient record.
Useful companion
Physician encounter to charge addresses the eligible visit, signed note, and charge-ready counts do not reconcile. Add it only if your team owns that separate workflow.
14-second workbook walkthrough
The first frame is an illustrative mockup. The following frames show actual workbook previews with fictional examples. Open the included Quick Start after purchase for setup steps.