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# The Billing Code Object

> A code that users can add to bills within a patient chart. Used often as CPT codes.

<Info>
  **API v2 covers billing data from the Elation EHR, not the Elation Billing product.**

  API v2 gives you access to billing information captured in the patient chart, such as [bills](/articles/rest/billing-api/bills/the-bill-object), [billing codes](/articles/rest/billing-api/billing-codes/the-billing-code-object), and [outstanding balance](/articles/rest/billing-api/outstanding-balance/update-outstanding-balance). Integrations typically use these endpoints to send visit charges from Elation to a third-party practice management system, and to surface patient balance information in the Elation EHR.

  Claims, payments, remittances, and patient statements belong to Elation Billing and aren't available through API v2. Practices using Elation Billing can query that data in the Hosted Database — see [Claim](/articles/hdb/claim), [Charge](/articles/hdb/charge), [Payment](/articles/hdb/payment), and [ERA Matched Adjustment](/articles/hdb/era-matched-adjustment).
</Info>

```json theme={null}
{
    "id": 75438293063,
    "practice": 75435474948,
    "code": "90471",
    "description": "vaccine injection, procedure only",
    "charge": "5.00",
    "sequence": 10
}
```

| Attribute | Type | Allowed Values | Description |
| :- | :- | :- | :- |
| id | integer | | The internal elation id of the billing code. |
| practice | integer | | The practice who created the billing code. |
| code | string | | The code that a user and integrators will see. |
| description | string | | The description of the code that users will see. |
| charge | decimal | | The amount of money that will be charged for the code. |
| sequence | integer | | The position in the list of billing codes. |