You can complete a Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) Physician's First Report C050E OIS Physician's First Report - C050S for the first visit associated with a claim involving a comprehensive consultation, a time loss claim, or a modified duty claim.
Steps
1. Start an insured bill in the CHR from an encounter, the Visits dashboard, the patient's chart or the Billing dashboard.
2. Perform one of the following actions:
If you're creating a new bill, click +New Payment. The New Insured Payment window opens.
📌 Note: For an encounter, go to the Billing Items area.
If you're reviewing or editing a bill that's already been created (for example, if the provider created the bill from the encounter), click the bill.
3. Select Alberta WCB from the Payment Issuer list.
📌 Note: For an encounter, in the Billing Items section, update the Insured Payment Detail to Alberta WCB for the bill.
4. Select the Billing Practitioner and then select Alberta WCB from the Available Billing Provider list.
5. Click +WCB.
📌 Note: The +WCB form button appears only when both the Payment Issuer and Available Billing Provider are set to Alberta WCB.
6. From the Form Type and Claim list, select Physician's First Report of Injury - C050E (or OIS Physician's First Report of Injury - C050S). Click Continue.
7. The Physician's First Report of Injury - C050E (or OIS Physician's First Report of Injury - C050S) window opens.
8. Fill in the form.
Click the links at the top to move between different sections of the form.
You know the required information in each section is complete when a green checkmark appears beside the section name and in the section tabs at the top.
9. Select the Form Status:
When you select Ready - validation on, the form appears in the bill with a Ready status.
When you select Draft - validation off you can fill in, save, re-open and edit the form until you're ready to submit it.
10. At the bottom of the form, click Save. You are returned to the Insured Payment window without any fee items. The form appears in the bill with a Draft status.
11. Add the appropriate fee items to the bill.
📌 Note: Certain service codes must be billed with a diagnosis code. A warning appears when you try to save the bill in the Ready to Submit status without including a required diagnosis code.
12. Add the Business Cost Program (BCP) codes to the bill:
You bill one BCP unit for every visit service you provide.
BCP01: For locations outside Calgary, Airdrie, and DeWinton.
BCP02: For Calgary, Airdrie, and DeWinton.
⚠️Important: The Alberta Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) does not automatically pay for these codes. Always double-check that you bill one BCP unit per visit service. For more information, refer to Albertadoctors.org.
13. To review or edit the form before you submit it, click the form billing item.
14. When you're ready to submit the bill with the form, in the Status drop-down, select Ready To Submit.
📌 Note: You can only change the payment status to Ready to submit when the Form Status is Ready - validation on.
15. Click Save. Each day at 9:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. and 12:05 a.m. MT, the CHR bundles all WCB billing items (fee items, forms and attachments) with a status of Ready to Submit and the bills' status changes to Submitted. For more information, refer to Submitting Workers' Compensation Board claims.
📌 Notes:
When the WCB claim changes to a Submitted status, the generated Physician copy of the WCB report is automatically saved to the Patient Files section of the patient's chart.
Only the PDF reports C050E, C151, C050S, and C151S are autosaved.
The file name is AB WCB Form <form type> <payment ID> <submission date>.
Once you save or submit the claim, you can generate a PDF copy of the form. Refer to Generating a PDF copy of a WCB form.
Updated September 11, 2024