PDF to Excel for Medical Billing & Healthcare

Built for healthcare billing teams, revenue-cycle management firms, and practice managers. Convert Explanation of Benefits (EOBs), CMS-1500 claims, UB-04 facility claims, patient intake forms, superbills, and lab reports into clean Excel for AR posting and denial management.

Try it on an EOB — free

Healthcare billing runs on PDFs nobody can analyze

An Explanation of Benefits from a payer is the source of truth for what got paid, denied, or adjusted on each claim. Practices receive 50-500 EOBs per week (paper-mailed or PDF-emailed) and need to post each claim's allowed amount, paid amount, patient responsibility, and denial reason codes into the practice management system. Manual EOB posting is a major bottleneck — most practices either dedicate staff to it or hire RCM firms to do it for them.

CMS-1500 claims (professional) and UB-04 facility claims also generate paper trails. Patient intake forms collected at registration need PHI extracted into the EHR. Superbills from referring physicians need diagnosis and procedure codes extracted for billing. Generic PDF tools either miss the structured medical-coding fields or produce CSV that needs cleanup — defeating the purpose.

EOB / claim / superbill extraction tuned for healthcare

PDFExcel reads healthcare documents by structure. EOBs extract with patient name, date of service, CPT code, billed amount, allowed amount, paid amount, patient responsibility, and CARC/RARC denial codes — one row per service line. CMS-1500 and UB-04 claims extract with provider, payer, patient, ICD-10 diagnosis codes, CPT procedure codes, modifiers, and units. Superbills extract physician-coded diagnosis + procedure data for billing posting.

Drop the export into the practice management system (NextGen, Epic, athenahealth, AdvancedMD, Kareo, eClinicalWorks) for batch posting. Built-in OCR handles the paper EOBs that still arrive by mail. Files are processed in memory and deleted immediately — important for HIPAA compliance posture.

Fields you can pull

  • Patient Name + DOB
  • Date of Service
  • Provider / NPI
  • Payer Name
  • Claim Number
  • CPT Procedure Code + Modifier
  • ICD-10 Diagnosis Code
  • Billed Amount
  • Allowed Amount
  • Paid Amount
  • Patient Responsibility (Copay / Coinsurance / Deductible)
  • CARC/RARC Denial Codes

Trained on real EOB layouts from major payers (UnitedHealth, Anthem, Aetna, Cigna, Humana, BCBS, plus Medicare and Medicaid intermediaries). The model knows that CARC code 45 means contractual obligation and 197 means precertification absent — and tags denial codes correctly.

Why billing teams and RCM firms pick PDFExcel

Most EOB-extraction tools either need a specific clearinghouse integration or charge per-claim at practice volume. PDFExcel reads any payer's EOB directly — and is HIPAA-aware in its data handling.

  • Knows EOB + CMS-1500 + UB-04. Trained on EOBs from major payers and the standard CMS-1500 / UB-04 claim formats. CARC/RARC denial codes preserved.
  • Free to start, no credit card. 10 documents free every month. Plans from $69/month for 50 docs — most small practices fit Starter, RCM firms fit Pro or Business.
  • No clearinghouse integration. Works on any payer's EOB regardless of clearinghouse coverage. Useful for the long tail of regional payers not on the major clearinghouses.
  • HIPAA-aware: files deleted immediately. PHI is sensitive — files are processed in memory and deleted as soon as extraction completes. Never stored, never shared, never used to train AI. SOC 2 controls in progress; BAA available for enterprise customers.

How it works

  1. Upload your healthcare PDFs. EOBs, CMS-1500/UB-04 claims, patient intake forms, superbills, lab reports. Native PDFs and scanned paper EOBs both work.
  2. Pick the fields you need. Patient + DOS + CPT + Allowed + Paid for EOB posting. Add CARC/RARC for denial management. Add ICD-10 for diagnosis-driven analysis.
  3. Post into PM system. Excel/CSV into NextGen / Epic / athenahealth / AdvancedMD / Kareo / eClinicalWorks for batch posting and denial work-list build.

What an EOB batch looks like in Excel

One row per service line with billed / allowed / paid / patient responsibility, plus denial codes for the work list. Drop into the PM system as a posting batch.

# Patient DOS CPT Billed Allowed Paid Pt Resp Denial
1 Smith, J. 02/14/2025 99213 $165.00 $94.20 $75.36 $18.84
2 Smith, J. 02/14/2025 99000 $25.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 CO-97
3 Doe, M. 02/16/2025 99214 $220.00 $132.40 $105.92 $26.48
4 Doe, M. 02/16/2025 85025 $48.00 $24.18 $24.18 $0.00
5 Patel, A. 02/18/2025 99203 $285.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 CO-197

Built for billing teams, RCM firms, and practice managers

In-house billing teams at solo + group practices, revenue cycle management firms supporting multiple practices, ASC and surgery-center billing teams, dental practices, behavioral health billing teams.

A solo practice biller

200+ EOBs per week from 8-10 payers. PDFExcel batches the week's EOBs, exports to AdvancedMD posting CSV. Posting time drops from 2 days/week to half a day.

An RCM firm

Supports 30 practices on different PM systems. Standardize EOB extraction on PDFExcel, export to whatever each client's PM expects. Onboard new clients faster — no per-PM EOB-parsing setup.

A practice manager doing denial management

Pulls last 90 days of denial-coded claims from EOBs. CARC code analysis reveals a precert workflow gap — fix it, recover $40k in re-billable claims.

Pricing

  • Free — 10 documents / month, no credit card
  • Starter $69/mo — 50 documents, $1.50 per extra
  • Pro $199/mo — 200 documents, $0.99 per extra
  • Business $699/mo — 1,000 documents, $0.59 per extra

Frequently asked questions

Is this HIPAA-compliant?

We handle data in a HIPAA-aware way: encryption in transit, processing in memory, deletion as soon as extraction completes. Never stored, never shared, never used to train AI. SOC 2 controls in progress. For HIPAA-covered entities, BAA (Business Associate Agreement) available for Enterprise customers — contact us before going live with PHI.

Does it handle EOBs from major payers?

Yes. UnitedHealth, Anthem, Aetna, Cigna, Humana, BCBS plans, Medicare and Medicaid intermediaries all work. The model adapts to each payer's layout. Regional payers and TPAs also work — generally well, though smaller payers with unusual layouts may need a visual spot-check on first use.

Will it preserve CARC and RARC denial codes?

Yes. Claim Adjustment Reason Codes (CARC) and Remittance Advice Remark Codes (RARC) extract as their own columns. Critical for denial management work-lists.

Can it batch a week of EOBs at once?

Yes. Drop a week's EOB folder as a ZIP, get back one Excel with all service lines. See batch processing for the broader workflow.

Does it integrate with NextGen / Epic / athenahealth / AdvancedMD?

We export CSVs that those PM systems accept for batch posting. No direct API integration — by design, keeps the tool simple. Most billing teams set up a saved import mapping per PM and reuse it.

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