Relax

Confession: I'm still nervous about my job.

Uhg - talk about a shitty feeling.

I waiting for all my mistakes to come up. I'm adult enough to know I'm going to make them, I just don't want them to be serious ones - like messing up on scheduling a preemie.

It was kind of funny, on Thursday, I was running through the mad stack of charges I had posted to the billing system. Each charge slip has procedure codes, modifiers and diagnostic codes. When posting a charge you must remember which insurance pays for screening Dx codes and which pay for medical Dx codes. Then you need to edit the insurance set up to make sure the correct insurance gets the correct bill, then you need to post any money paid to the specific procedure code. You also have to keep track of the procedure code costs and write the total amount at the bottom of the charge slip. Then you have the computer print out a final tally of all your charges which you compare to the total of the slips. If you incorrectly enter a charge, you're fucked. Theres no way to find the mistake other than going through all of the charge slips, one by one, and comparing them to the charges logged in the system. After posting 150 some charges on Thursday, I thought to myself "Someday, I'm going to fuck this up... and it's gonna suck ass..." Da duh duh Da, my computer total did not match my paper total. S U C K. I was lucky the amount was $45, which meant I had charged someone for a refraction they didn't have. But how to find the person I charged? I had 150 slips... only 15 or so had refractions so that left me with ~135 slips to double check... thankfull Stacie came to my rescue - she found a slip that looked like a refraction but was actually a no-charge. It turned out to be the miss-charge. She warned me that I'd gotten lucky, since fixing charges usually take hours.

::shudder::