What is Charge Capture?
Also called: charge entry · missed charges
Charge capture leakage is uniquely dangerous because it is silent. A denial is visible and measurable. A charge that was never entered produces no signal at all.
Common leakage points are hospital rounds and consults performed away from the practice's own system, procedures performed during an office visit but documented only in the note narrative, and services rendered by a provider whose charges route through a separate workflow.
Where Vizora handles this
Primary sources
Where "Charge Capture" is defined by the bodies that set the rules, rather than by us.
- MGMA DataDive and MGMA Stat (opens in a new tab)
Medical Group Management Association — The practice-level operations benchmarks — days in AR, denial rate, cost to collect — that physician groups are actually measured against.
- MAP Keys revenue cycle metrics (opens in a new tab)
Healthcare Financial Management Association — Standard definitions for revenue cycle KPIs. Worth reading precisely because HFMA defines the metrics without publishing public target values — a distinction most vendor marketing ignores.
- Medicare Physician Fee Schedule lookup (opens in a new tab)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — Official allowed amounts by CPT/HCPCS code and locality. The reference point most commercial contracts are written against as a percentage.
Last reviewed August 20, 2026
Related terms
Superbill
A superbill is an itemized record of the services a provider delivered during a visit, listing diagnosis and procedure codes, provider details and charges. It is not a claim: it is the source document a biller converts into a claim, or that a patient submits to seek out-of-network reimbursement.
Revenue Cycle Management
Revenue cycle management is the end-to-end financial process a healthcare practice runs from the moment a patient schedules an appointment until the balance for that visit is fully paid. It covers eligibility verification, coding, claim submission, payer follow-up, denial appeals, patient billing and reporting.
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