In plain English
This is the account's bookkeeping date for a financial entry. It marks when a charge, payment, adjustment, or other transaction was entered onto the account record.
In context
Here, it labels the date a charge or payment was recorded to the account in the billing record.
- Situation
- Reading patient billing, coding, estimates, statements, and payment-plan fields
- What it communicates
- labels the date a charge or payment was entered into the billing record.
Meaning limits
By itself, this term does not tell you when the medical service occurred or when the payment was actually made.
Examples
“Although she mailed the check on 3 June, the posted date for the payment was 7 June.”
“In the billing record, the laboratory charge carries a posted date of 12 July.”