ERA automation that posts payments so your team can work denials
HARRIS CareTracker electronic remittance advice automation receives, matches, and posts payments without manual intervention. Set the rules for how and when ERAs post, then let the platform handle the rest. Your billing team spends less time on data entry and more time on the denials that actually need attention.
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Automated Payment Matching
Configurable Posting Rules
Built into HARRIS CareTracker Billing and Practice Management
Why Manual ERA Posting Takes More of your Team's Time Than It Should
Most billing teams spend a significant portion of every week receiving remittance files, matching payments to claims, posting line item adjustments, and sorting denials into work queues. The work is repetitive, mostly clerical, and it crowds out the higher value activity, which is working the denials that need a human to resolve.
HARRIS CareTracker ERA automation handles the matching and posting work in the background. Payments that match cleanly post automatically. Denials and exceptions land in actionable worklists with the payer’s reason already attached. The team’s attention shifts from data entry to revenue recovery.
Less Manual Work, Leaner Staffing, More Time on Denials
The practical effect of automating ERA processing shows up in three places. Manual posting disappears, which removes a significant block of weekly work. Staffing needs drop because the platform handles what billers used to do by hand. And the time that opens up goes toward denials, which is where billing teams actually move the revenue needle.
Eliminate manual posting. Reduce staffing needs. Focus your time on denials.
One Place to Send and Receive Remittance Data
Most billing teams know the pain of chasing paper explanation of benefits, exporting claim files, uploading remittance files, and reconciling them across multiple systems. HARRIS CareTracker eRemittance consolidates all of that work into a single location.
Send and receive data from one screen. No file exports between systems. No paper EOBs to track down. The platform connects to payers through the integrated clearinghouse, so remittance flows directly into the system that posts the payments.
Automatic Charge Matching for Clean Payments and Clear Denials
When remittance comes in, HARRIS CareTracker matches each payment line to the corresponding office visit and charge. Clean payments are ready to post with a single click, or post automatically based on your rules.
Denials and unexpected payment amounts route to actionable worklists. Each item shows the payer’s reason for returning the claim, so the biller working it has the context they need without researching the original payer response.
Licensed Clinical Staff Delivering Care Coordination
Handles Every Payment Type a Practice Receives
HARRIS CareTracker ERA automation processes the four payment types that show up in a typical remittance file: ACH for electronic funds transfers, BOP for third party processors, CHK for paper checks, and NON for non payments such as adjustments and denials.
Treating all four uniformly means the billing team works in one queue instead of switching between tools depending on how the payment arrived.
Configurable Rules for How and When Payments Post
Different practices want different posting behavior. Some want every clean match to post immediately. Some want a daily batch with a review step. Some want different rules for different payers or payment types. HARRIS CareTracker lets you set those rules and then run accordingly.
Email notifications confirm the result of each posting run, with details on what posted, what was held for review, and what landed in a denial worklist. The billing manager sees the pattern at a glance instead of reconstructing it from individual transactions.
Actionable Denial Worklists with Payer Reasons Attached
When a payer returns a claim, the denial goes into an actionable worklist with the payer’s reason code and explanation already attached. Billers see what happened and why, then work the claim from there.
Routing rules can assign worklists by payer, denial reason, or biller, so the right person sees the right denials without manual triage. Aging filters surface the denials at risk of timely filing limits, which protects revenue that would otherwise be written off.
Guided Setup, Including Payer EDI Agreements
Setting up electronic remittance with each payer requires an EDI agreement, which can be one of the more frustrating parts of a billing technology rollout. HARRIS CareTracker handles this through the integrated clearinghouse and guides the practice through each payer setup.
The result is a faster path from contract signing to actually receiving electronic remittance, with less back and forth between the practice, the payer, and the platform.
ERA Automation is One Piece of the HARRIS CareTracker Billing Platform
Electronic remittance lives inside the broader HARRIS CareTracker billing platform, which includes an integrated clearinghouse, claims scrubbing, accounts receivable management, and scheduling. Payments posting in one part of the system informs reporting and worklists everywhere else.
Practices that use the full HARRIS CareTracker cloud suite extend that integration into clinical documentation and patient engagement, so charges, payments, and balances all stay in sync without manual data movement between systems.
Stop Posting Payments by Hand. Start Working Denials.
HARRIS CareTracker ERA automation handles the receiving, matching, and posting of electronic remittance, so your billing team can focus on the work that requires judgment. Configurable posting rules. Email notifications on every run. Denial worklists with payer reasons attached. Guided implementation through the integrated clearinghouse.
If you want to see how it would work for your billing operation, the easiest next step is a short walkthrough with someone on our team.
FAQs
Electronic remittance advice, often called ERA, is the electronic version of an explanation of benefits. Payers send ERAs to tell a practice which claims they paid, how much they paid, what they adjusted, and what they denied. HARRIS CareTracker ERA automation receives, matches, and posts this information without manual data entry.
HARRIS CareTracker receives remittance files through the integrated clearinghouse, matches each payment line to the corresponding charge, and posts clean payments based on the rules you configure. Denials and exceptions route into actionable worklists with the payer’s reason already attached, ready for a biller to work.
HARRIS CareTracker processes four payment types: ACH for electronic funds transfers, BOP for third party processors, CHK for paper checks, and NON for non payments including adjustments and denials. All four are handled in the same workflow.
Yes. HARRIS CareTracker lets practices set rules for how payments post, including by payer, payment type, and timing. Some practices post clean matches immediately. Some run a daily batch with a review step. Email notifications confirm the result of each posting run.
Denials route to actionable worklists with the payer’s reason code and explanation attached. Routing rules can assign denials by payer, reason, or biller. Aging filters surface denials at risk of timely filing limits, so revenue does not get written off because a denial sat unnoticed.
Yes. HARRIS CareTracker handles payer EDI agreement setup through the integrated clearinghouse and guides the practice through each payer enrollment. This shortens the time between contract signing and actually receiving electronic remittance.
ERA automation is part of HARRIS CareTracker billing, which also includes an integrated clearinghouse, claims scrubbing, accounts receivable management, and scheduling. Practices using the full HARRIS CareTracker cloud suite extend that integration into clinical documentation and patient engagement.
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We chose HARRIS CareTracker for our office because of its cost-effectiveness and since changing to them, we have seen a significant increase in our monthly savings. The standout feature has been the excellent customer support and training!
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