Electronic Remittance Advice (ERA)/835

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Advantage to receiving ERA instead of the paper Remittance Advice (RA) include:

  • Quicker communication. The ERA is available the day your claims are paid, rather than waiting for delivery of the paper Remittance Advice (RA) which is mailed through the United States Postal Service.
  • The ERA can be downloaded and stored for future use.

CMS recommends that providers accept ERA transmissions in lieu of mailed SPRs.  Communication software is needed in order to send and receive files.  WPS Medicare does not provide communication software.

**The ERA replaces the paper Remittance Advice (RA)**

Forms

ERA/835 Information and Updates

Remittance Advice Reason and Remark Code Descriptions link to website outside of wpsmedicare
Link Directly to the Washington Publishing Company's (WPC) Web site to obtain the latest descriptions for the Remittance Advice reason and remark codes found on the Medicare Electronic Remittance Advice (ERA).

Remittance Advice Remark Code (RARC) and Claim Adjustment Reason Code (CARC) Update – Change Request (CR) 6229 adobe portable format document

835 Companion Document

Ending Contingency Plan for ERAs & Charging for PC Print/MREP/Dup RAs adobe portable format document

Standardization of Fiscal Intermediary Use of Group and Claim Adjustment Reason Codes and Calculation and Balancing of TS2 and TS3 Segment Data Elements adobe portable format document

MREP Software link to CMS Website

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