Need to have the ability to have procedure codes come over from the 3M Encoder or other encoder and have some kind of prompt for which charge goes with the procedure code for clinic episodes.

I am not sure how other facilities handle this, but we know that providers are not coders and a lot of times what they enter as a diagnosis code isn't really what it is supposed to be. Our coder ends up clearing those codes and entering the actual diagnosis codes in the encoder and while she is doing that she might as well be entering the procedure codes and category 2 codes as well. However, we found out that the procedure codes/category 2 codes do not transfer over to the account detail. There needs to be some kind of a prompt when the coder brings back to the codes or maybe in transaction entry where it shows the procedure code/category 2 code that was entered in the encoder and brought back to the grouper and prompt us to enter the actual charge that is associated with that procedure code/category 2 code so we don't have to run a report in the middle of this and then have the biller go enter those same codes in transaction entry. It makes no sense and makes extra work for something that could be so simple.