ClinicAid-AHS Billing Help

Guides to billing to Alberta Health (Hlink) with ClinicAid. Specific questions about common errors, specialized billing, and other special situation. Also includes Alberta cutoff dates and remittance periods.

Contact Information for Alberta Health Services
To minimize the spread of Covid-19, Alberta Health office staff are working remotely, which means that they are not accepting phone calls or faxes. All inqu...
Wed, 22 Mar, 2023 at 11:45 AM
Alberta cutoff dates and remittance periods
 The Alberta billing cycle is weekly and the official cutoff date is every Thursday at 4:00 PM. At ClinicAid, we batch and send invoices hourly.  Due to lar...
Mon, 25 Jan, 2021 at 3:39 PM
Claiming for after-hours work December 2023 - December 2024
The table below is to help clarify what modifiers to use during your holiday billings for December 2023 and all of 2024.  Please note that after-hours&#...
Mon, 18 Dec, 2023 at 12:13 PM
Business Arrangement (BA) Request
  Applying for a BA A business arrangement (BA) is an agreement with Alberta Health and Wellness to establish the arrangement for payment of health ser...
Thu, 7 Apr, 2022 at 10:06 AM
Setting up your Provider Record in Alberta
The first thing you’ll need to do to set up your account is to create a provider record for each physician that the billing will be done in ClinicAid. If...
Wed, 30 Aug, 2023 at 10:29 AM
Out Of Province Referral Physician
If you have a patient that was referred to you by a physician from out of province, you won't be able to enter their Prac ID equivalent in the Referral ...
Fri, 28 Dec, 2018 at 3:30 PM
In Alberta, how to bill a newborn without a PHN?
Billing for a newborn without a PHN (personal health number, registration number or ULI) in Alberta differs in ClinicAid depending on wether the patient is ...
Wed, 19 Jan, 2022 at 10:03 AM
Alberta: How bill an Out of Province (OOP) claim?
To do an out of province bill in Alberta, the patient first needs to be setup as OOP. When creating the patient, click on the "+", you will then g...
Thu, 12 May, 2022 at 3:41 PM
How do I handle a rejected claim with a wrong PHN if the PHN was previously out-of-province
Sometimes in Alberta a bill for an out-of-province patient is rejected because a patient has received in-province health care coverage and an Alberta prov...
Tue, 8 Nov, 2016 at 11:10 AM
Surgical and Anesthesia Billing - Most luctrative billing
ClinicAid includes a Code Calculator Feature that will calculate the number of units based on input time, or length of procedure as well as automatically di...
Fri, 28 Dec, 2018 at 11:08 AM