835 / EOB Remittance Balancing

835 / EOB remittance balancing: billed minus paid minus the CO/PR/OA/PI adjustments; flags out-of-balance and the patient responsibility to bill.

Open the tool → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.

Example

Billed charge
200 $
Paid amount
120 $
CO contractual-obligation adjustments
50 $
PR patient-responsibility adjustments
30 $

Result: Balances: $0.00 residual; post the payment and bill the patient $30.00 (Sigma PR).

The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.

What you enter

  • Billed charge
  • Paid amount
  • CO contractual-obligation adjustments
  • PR patient-responsibility adjustments
  • OA other adjustments
  • PI payer-initiated adjustments
How this is calculated

ASC X12 835 (Health Care Claim Payment/Advice) balancing and the CAS claim-adjustment group codes CO (contractual), PR (patient responsibility), OA (other), PI (payer-initiated): billed = paid + the sum of the adjustments, and patient responsibility = the sum of PR. Read the source ↗

A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.

More in Billing and coding.

Browse all tools

Built by Clay Good. Source on GitHub.