In Epic, what is the term for grouping all services during a patient encounter to support billing and care?

• A. Visit
• B. Encounter
• C. Episode
• D. Appointment

Answer: (B)

The main idea here is understanding what Epic uses as the formal container for everything that happens during a patient’s visit. In Epic, the term that groups all services, notes, orders, results, and billing codes for that specific patient encounter is the Encounter. This single unit ties together the care delivered during one visit so billing and clinical documentation stay coherent.

An appointment is just the scheduled time for a visit, not the bundled set of actions. A visit is a common way to refer to the patient’s time with a clinician, but the formal grouping that aggregates all activities for billing and care within Epic is the Encounter. An episode usually implies a broader span of care across multiple encounters, not the single encounter being billed.