Description:
Uniform Billing (UB90) went into effect in September 1990.  This new billing method affected all inpatient facility claims and how hospitals submitted them.  When we receive a hard copy, EMC or electronically submitted inpatient facility claim (currently called a UB04), we only need to enter the date indicated in the "Statement Cover Period" on the header of the UB04.  Inpatient facility claims are submitted electronically or hardcopy with the admission date and discharge date. 

Reason for Policy:
A corporate business decision was made across all lines of business to just key the admission date and systematically propagate the dates of service to each line of a claim, thus eliminating thousands of keystrokes a year.

Policy:

1. Date of service submitted on UB04 forms are keyed in the header of inpatient facility claims.
2. The system will automatically propagate the dates of service to every line on an inpatient claims.  No further action needs to be taken.