Inovalon User Guide
This article serves as a guide for how to review your submitted claims on Inovalon’s Claims Management Pro portal, which you can access here: providercloud.inovalon.com. This guide assumes you have completed the Inovalon Onboarding process and have been set up with access for Claims Management Pro.
If you haven’t already followed the steps in the Inovalon Payer Enrollment Guide to enroll for the payers that do require it, and verified that you’ve updated Payer IDs in MacPractice, we strongly urge you to review that guide thoroughly. This can curtail many claim rejections and errors.
Inovalon Help Resources
Inovalon has a host of resources available to aid with understanding their process. You can find these options in CMP under the “Training” Menu.
The Inovalon User Guide is an excellent resource to understand individual areas of the Inovalon CMP interface. We strongly encourage you to download a copy of this.
Up to date copies can be found under the “User Guide” selection in the Training Menu.
The Interactive Training section provides links to several valuable resources, but in particular we’d like to point you at the “QuickStart Live” series, which covers all the basic areas that a regular user would want to be aware of. Much of the advice listed here in this article has been pulled from these resources.
QuickStart LIVE series (Need to be logged into CMP to access these links)
Quickstart Live: Reviewing Submitted Claims - https://providercloud.inovalon.com/supportsite/help/pages/claims-management-reviewing-submitted-claims-quickstart-live-0
Quickstart Live: Working Errors on CMS-1500 claims - https://providercloud.inovalon.com/supportsite/help/pages/claims-management-working-errors-on-cms-1500-claims-quickstart-live-0
Adding and Managing Users for Claims Management Pro
Click the following link to find a dedicated article on how to add and manage users for your office in the Claims Management Pro portal:Inovalon - How to Add and Manage Users on Claims Management Pro
Sending and Rebuilding Claims
Once you have created your claims in MacPractice’s Ledger as described in eClaims - Creating an Electronic Claim, you can navigate to the eClaims Ability. You can send any claim that’s in the Ready bin in the eClaims Ability by clicking on the Ready tab, selecting the claims you want to send in the claims table, and then clicking the “Send” button:
In some cases when troubleshooting claim rejections, after making any corrections to the charges associated with a claim, you can use the “Rebuild” button to re-create claims for re-submission.
Click here to learn more about the eClaims Ability in general: eClaims Ability - Overview
Locating your Claims on Claims Management Pro
To find your Claims on the CMP Portal, you’ll look for the Claims Menu:
From here, you can find your Institutional and Professional claims, and you can also review specific batches of claims in the Batches selection. A batch is created whenever you click the Send button, and will contain the claims that you selected when you sent them.
How long does it take for claims to appear on Inovalon after sending them?
If your claim batch does not appear on CMP, it can take up to a few hours for batches to appear depending on Inovalon’s load at the time. You can verify that the file upload from MacPractice was received by navigating to the System Menu > File Manager when logged into CMP.
Once you’re in the File Manager, you’ll open the following folders and see if there are any files in the Import folder:
Partners > Mac####### > Imports
Viewing Claim Statuses
Institutional and Professional Claim Statuses
This table is from pg. 137 of the Inovalon User Guide:
Status | Short Description | Long Description |
---|---|---|
ACK_DENIED | Denied Manually | This transaction was denied manually by a user. |
ACK_FINAL | Acknowledged by Payer | Final acknowledgment has been received from payer. |
ACK_MANUAL | Acknowledged Manually | The transaction was acknowledged manually by a user. |
ARCHIVED | Archived | The transaction has been archived. |
CREATED | Created | The transaction has been created. |
CROSSOVER | Crossover Claim | The secondary claim was forwarded from the previous payer. |
DELETED | Deleted | The transaction has been deleted. |
DENIED | Denied | The payer has denied the transaction on a remittance advice. |
DDE ERROR | DDE Error | The Medicare claim is in error status. (Institutional Claims Only) |
DDE PROCESSING | DDE Processing | The claim is currently locked for processing via Medicare FISS/DDE and cannot be modified. Click “Workflow” to view claim details. (Institutional Claims Only) |
ERROR | Validation Failed | The transaction has errors that must be corrected before it can be released and sent to the payer. |
FOLLOW-UP | Follow-up | The transaction has been marked for follow-up. |
HOLD | Hold | The transaction has been put on hold. |
INFO | Informational | The transaction is informational only and will not be processed. |
MCARE_ADR | Medicare ADR | Medicare has requested ADR for this claim. (Institutional Claims Only) |
MCARE_REJ | Medicare Reject | Medicare has rejected the claim in the DDE system. (Institutional Claims Only) |
MODIFIED | Modified | The transaction has been modified. |
PAID | Paid | The Payer has paid the transaction. View remittance for additional information. |
PRINTED | Printed | The transaction was printed. |
PROCESSING | Processing | The transaction has been locked by the clearinghouse for processing. |
QUEUED | Queued For Transmission | The transaction has been queued for transmission to the payer. “Claim Transmissions to Payers and Batch Schedule” on page 220. Once claims are batches, they are submitted to the payer. |
REJ_HOST | Rejected By Host | Clearinghouse has rejected the transaction. |
REJ_MANUAL | Rejected Manually | Claim was rejected manually by the user. |
REJ_PAYER | Rejected By Payer | The payer has rejected the transaction. |
RELEASED | Released | The transaction is ready to be processed by the clearinghouse. Note: If the claim is to be printed onsite it will stay in released status until printed. |
TRANSMIT | Sent To Payer | The transaction has been sent to the payer. |
UNDELETED | Undeleted | The transaction has been undeleted. |
UNHOLD | Released Hold | The transaction hold has been removed. |
UNINFO | Removed Informational Status | The transaction informational only status has been removed. |
UNKNOWN | Unknown | Transaction status is in an unknown state. |
VALIDATED | Validation Success | The transaction has been validated. |
Remit Payments and Remit Details
In the Collections Menu, under Remit Payments and Remit Details, you can find your EOBs and ERAs.
Creating Timely Filing Appeal Letters in CMP
You can learn how to create Timely Filing Appeals here:
Inovalon - Creating and Managing Timely Filing Appeals in Claims Management Pro