What is a 'form type' lookup code?
Who cares about form type lookup codes?
Each insurance payer that you bill must be assigned a 'form type' lookup code.
Answer: You have 20 insurance payers to bill: Medicare, Blue Cross PPO, Blue Shield, Prudential...., etc. You could create a claim for each of these if you want and print 20 different files of claims. This would probably be a waste of your time. Medicare is different from private payers so it is good to have a separate form type for Medicare, like 564. Most private payers will accept claims formatted the same way. Yes, we know this is not true, but it is 'almost' true. The Stratford program knows most of the exceptions and will automatically handle them for you. So you may be able to bill all private payer claims together with a form type like '515'. Medicaid is different so you can print all of them with the form type like '513'. We really don't care what you use for the form type - you can assign your own form type lookup codes, however, if you call our support group, we will have some numbers that we recommend. It makes it easier for us to support you. We have thousands of licensed users, some still use the old 'dos compiled' version and many use the newer 'Windows compiled' version like you use. It makes things easier for us if everyone uses the same form types. If you use something different, it will work just fine, but you will need to remember everything. Of course, the Windows version has easy lookup screens so you can find things if you forget.