You can create Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) Physician's Progress Reports - C151 or OIS Physician's Progress Reports C151S after you create and submit an Alberta WCB first report (refer to Creating Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) first reports (Alberta)). Create a progress report only for completed follow-up visits where relevant changes occurred since the previous report.
When you create an Alberta WCB progress report or other report, you can pull in data from an existing C050 or CO50S First Report and then update the information as necessary.
Steps
1. Create an insured bill in the CHR, either from an encounter, the Visits dashboard, the Billing dashboard or the Insured Billing section of the patient’s chart. Refer to Creating provincial bills (Alberta).
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.
From an encounter
6. From the Form Type and Claim list, select Physician's Progress Report - C151 (or OIS Physician's Progress Report - C151S). Click Continue.
7. To pre-populate the form with the same information recorded in a previous report, select the form and click Continue. Otherwise click No WCB claim and click Continue.
8. The Physician's Progress Report - C151 (or OIS Physician's Progress Report - C151S) window opens.
9. 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.
10. 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. The form appears in the bill with a Draft status.
11. At the bottom of the form, click Save. You are returned to the Insured Payment window without any fee items.
12. Add the appropriate fee item 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.
13. 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.
14. To review or edit the form before you submit it, click the form.
15. 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.
16. Click Save. Once a day, 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 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