Billing

How it is used

Used for both the process and the department: the billing office, the billing team, billing errors. In the US 'medical billing' is a profession of its own. Accurate billing depends on good documentation and correct coding.

Example sentences

1. A billing error meant that dozens of patients received the wrong invoice.

2. We moved billing to the new hospital information system in January.

Common collocations

• billing department
• billing error
• medical billing
• billing system
• billing cycle

Related terms

• claimA formal request that a hospital or patient sends to an insurer or public payer, listing the care given and asking to be paid for it.
• clinical codingThe process of turning the diagnoses and procedures in a patient's record into standard codes, which are used for payment, statistics and planning.
• accounts receivableMoney that patients, insurers and other payers owe the hospital for care that has already been provided but not yet paid for.
• hospital information systemThe integrated software a hospital uses to manage patient registration, appointments, clinical records, orders, billing and stock.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• billing · Customer Service

More terms: Billing and Coding

• claim denial
• ICD