Charge Services 26.04

The features below are available with this release.

Highlights

  • Ensure users have the correct charge codes at the time of charge creation.
  • Reduce manual touches by coders, billers, revenue integrity, and IT staff.
  • Reduce the time it takes to bill claims and receive reimbursement.
  • The Oracle Health Charge Services Charge agent can now attempt to automatically resolve certain charge issues based on configuration that is completed by your site's IT administrator.
  • Billers can now manually add charges to encounters.
  • Billers can now select multiple charges when performing manual charge actions.
  • Billers can now manually release and absorb charges that are in a status of Suspended.
  • Billers and department managers can now view charge information from multiple encounters and patients at once.

Solution Change Details

Solution Change Component, Description, and UI Impact Reference Materials Validation Guidelines Implementation and Maintenance Impact
Millennium Platform Charge Event Proxy

Component: Oracle Health Clinical Charge Capture

Description: Billers can now capture charges from previous clinical workflows that require Millennium Platform Charge Services.

Customers upgrading to 2026.01, no longer have to process through the Millennium Platform Charge Activity tables and the charges are no longer viewable in those tables after upgrading. However, the Charge Reference data remains in Millennium Platform for 2026.01.

In a future release, all Charge Reference data will be included in the new Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) platform.

Note:

The EHRM Charge Activity tables are now the source of truth for charge data.

UI Impact: Workflow (Automatic)

See the Charge Services Billers User Guide for more information.

Verify that you can successfully complete the workflows in the Reference Materials.

Implementation Impact: None 

Maintenance Impact: None

Coding Agent/Charge Integration

Component: Oracle Health Clinical Charge Capture

Description: Revenue Integrity users can ensure that the Coding Agent has the ability to pass on any information relevant to creating the charge.

UI Impact: Workflow (Automatic)

See the Charge Services Billers User Guide for more information.

Verify that you can successfully complete the workflows in the Reference Materials.

Implementation Impact: None 

Maintenance Impact: None

Charge Agent Automated Actions

Component: Oracle Health Charge Services Charge Agent

Description: The Oracle Health Charge Services Charge agent can now attempt to automatically resolve charge issues in the following issue categories:
  • Modifier 25 Missing
  • Modifier 26 Missing
  • Modifier 76 Missing
  • Modifier 77 Missing
  • Modifier 91 Missing
  • Modifier TC Missing
  • Charge Time Outside Encounter Range
  • Invalid Duration
  • Invalid Professional Details
  • NCCI PTP Edits (Modifier 59, XE, XP, XS, XU)

UI Impact: Workflow (Implemented)

IT administrators can now configure the Oracle Health Charge Services Charge agent to attempt to automatically resolve certain charge issues.

See the Charge Services Configuration Guide for more information.

Verify that you can successfully complete the workflows in the Reference Materials.

Implementation Impact: None 

Maintenance Impact: None

View Charge Information for Multiple Encounters

Component: Oracle Health Charge Services Charges List

Description: If you access the Charges table as a biller or a department manager, you can now view charge information from multiple encounters and patients at once.

UI Impact: Visual Only

See the Charge Services Billers User Guide for more information.

Verify that you can successfully complete the workflows in the Reference Materials.

Implementation Impact: None 

Maintenance Impact: None

Release Suspended Charges

Component: Oracle Health Charge Services Charges List

Description: As needed, billers can now manually release or absorb charges that are in a status of Suspended by selecting the appropriate action on the Charges table.

UI Impact: Workflow (Automatic)

Billers can now manually release or absorb charges that are in a status of Suspended.

See the Charge Services Billers User Guide for more information.

Verify that you can successfully complete the workflows in the Reference Materials.

Implementation Impact: None 

Maintenance Impact: None

Perform Bulk Charge Actions

Component: Oracle Health Charge Services Charges Table

Description: Billers can now select checkboxes in charge rows on the Charges table to to select multiple charges when performing manual charge actions.

UI Impact: Workflow (Automatic)

Billers can now select multiple charges when performing manual charge actions.

See the Charge Services Billers User Guide for more information.

Verify that you can successfully complete the workflows in the Reference Materials.

Implementation Impact: None 

Maintenance Impact: None

Manually Add Charges

Component: Oracle Health Charge Services Charges Table

Description: Billers can now manually add charges to encounters. Additionally, billers can modify encounter information as needed while manually adding charges.

UI Impact: Workflow (Automatic)

Billers can now manually add charges to encounters.

See the Charge Services Billers User Guide for more information.

Verify that you can successfully complete the workflows in the Reference Materials.

Implementation Impact: None 

Maintenance Impact: None

Parent topic: Charge Services Solution Change Details