The Billing and Insurance pages provide insightful data that can help you keep track of client and insurance billing.

In this guide, we’ll cover:

• Billing
  • Recent activity
  • Billing documents
  • Card transactions
• Insurance
  • Unbilled appointments
  • Claims
  • Payments

Billing

To view billing information, click the Billing tab from the left navigation menu:

Recent activity

When you click the Billing tab, you’ll see the Recent activity tab by default. This tab shows all transactions from the last 30 days. This includes all sessions, invoices, refunds, as well as all client and insurance payments.

To view additional billing activity, you can expand the date range. To do this:

• Click the date range at the top of the page

• Select new dates
• Click Apply

You can also export a spreadsheet of the transactions from the Recent activity tab.

Important: This file contains protected health information (PHI), so make sure to manage it with care.

To do this:

• Navigate to Billing > Recent activity
• Click Export payments

• Select the Since last export or Select date range option
  • Since last export will populate all transactions dated after your last export
  • Select date range will populate all transactions within a specific date range 
• Choose the file type (Quickbooks or CSV)
• Click Export

The exported file will contain each transaction’s date, type, amount, and the associates client's name.

Note: Any recent version of QuickBooks should support an exported QuickBooks spreadsheet of the Recent activity. If you run into any issues, you’ll need to enter this information manually into your QuickBooks account.

Billing documents

The Billing documents tab shows a record of all your clients’ invoices, superbills, and statements.

Note: To learn more about our billing documents, see Understanding invoices, statements, and superbills.

This tab details the:

• Client’s Name
• Type of billing document
• Client's default Delivery Method
  • This will reflect the Email Billing Notifications setting for the client
• Status of the billing document
• Date the document was created

A billing document can have the following statuses:

• Sent: The document has been shared with the client via email or the Client Portal
  • This status will also display if you use the Export PDF option for a document
• Not sent: The document hasn’t been shared with the client via email or the Client Portal
  • This status typically appears for invoices created for clients with a manual delivery method
• Pending: The document has been created, but hasn’t been exported or sent to your client
  • This status may appear for invoices created for clients with automated delivery methods
• Exported: The document has been created, but hasn’t been sent to your client
  • This status will usually appear for superbills and statements 

Using the filters at the top of the page, you can filter this report by:

• Searching a client's name
• Date range
• Document type
  • Select the View all drop down to select a specific document type

You’re also able to export your billing documents. To do this: 

• Filter the date range to include any specific documents
• Check the boxes for each document you’d like to export
• Click Export PDF

Note: If you’d like to share the exported PDF of billing documents, see How to share billing documents with clients.

Card transactions

Important: The Card transactions report is only available if you have an active Online Payments account in SimplePractice. To set up Online Payments, navigate to Settings > Payment processing > Online payments, and follow the steps found in Getting Started with Online Payments.

If you’ve signed up for an Online Payments account, you can access the Card transactions report by navigating to Billing > Card transactions.

This tab records the following details for each card transaction:

• Date 
• Client charged
• Type of charge
  • This is either a Charge or a Refund
• Amount 
  • This is the gross amount charged before the Online Payments fee is deducted
• Fee associated 
  • This is the Online Payments processing fee associated with each successful transaction 
• Net amount 
  • This is the amount remaining after the Online Payments fee has been deducted from the gross amount

To view additional transaction details for each charge or refund, click Details.

The Transaction Details page will include:

• Charge Details 
  • Payment ID
  • Statement descriptor
    • This is the information that’s shown on the client's bank statement
    • You can learn more about statement descriptors in Business Details
  • Amount
  • Fee
  • Net
  • Date
  • Payout
• Card Details
  • Card ID 
  • Name on the card
  • Number 
    • This will only display the last 4 digits of the card
  • If a CVC check took place
  • Expiration date
  • Type of card

You can filter this tab by date range, or by a specific client by entering the client’s name in the search bar. You can also filter by transaction status if you click All types and select a status from the dropdown menu.

To export this report, click Export transactions in the upper right corner of the tab.

Note: We'll send you an email when the file is ready for you to download. 

To download the file, navigate to Settings > Practice > Data export and click Ready for download next to the export:

Tip: Exporting your Card transactions report is recommended if you'd like to compile and organize information, such as credit card processing fees, outside of your SimplePractice account.

Insurance

To begin viewing insurance billing information, select the Insurance tab from the left navigation menu:

Unbilled appointments

The Unbilled appointments tab lists all insurance appointments that currently don’t have a claim created. This list is organized by client and shows the last 30 days by default.

This tab details:

• The number of Appointments that are unbilled for the client
• Client name
• Insurance Payer
• Number of Clinician(s) the client has seen
• Total charged, which reflects the total fees of the unbilled appointments 

Clicking the arrow next to a client reveals the following of each unbilled appointment:

• Date
• CPT code(s)
• Modifier(s)
• Place of Service code
• Name of the clinician of the appointment
• Appointment's fee

Note: You can also create batch claims of unbilled appointments through this tab. For more information, see Creating batch claims.

You can use the drop down menus to filter unbilled appointments by:

• Date range
• Insurance payer
• Clinician
• Note status of the appointment

Claims

The Claims tab lists all the claims created within the last 30 days by default.

Note: To learn more about claims, see Filing primary claims in SimplePractice.

This tab details the following for each claim:

• Date created
  • This reflects the date the claim was created, and not the date of service on the claim
• Client
• Claim Status
• Any additional Status detail
  • This may reflect a rejection or scrub message for the claim [check if accepted or denied also has status details]
• Days submitted
  • This reflects the number of days since the claim was submitted 

You can use additional filters to search for a client’s name in the search bar, or use the drop down menus to filter by:

• Date range
• Insurance payer
• Client
• Claim type
  • This is either Primary or Secondary
• Claim status

Note: For further information on each claim status, see Checking a claim status: The different phases of an insurance claim.

Payments

The Payments tab lists insurance payments from all payers within the last 30 days by default. 

Note: To learn more about insurance payments, see Adding insurance payments.

This tab includes the following details for each insurance payment:

• Date 
• Insurance Payer
• Payment reference number
• Total Paid amount
• Unallocated amount
  • This reflects the total amount that’s not associated with an appointment in the insurance payment 

Note: For more information on unallocated amounts in insurance payments, see How to resolve unallocated insurance payment amounts.

You can filter this page by: 

• Date range 
• Insurance payer
• Allocation
  • For more information on unallocated payments, see How to resolve unallocated insurance payment amounts