Hi Jerry & Stephen
Just to clarify, we’re not looking to embed another payment API (if that’s how I came across).
To operate successfully as a business, we must have a way to accept & record both payment amounts and the methods of payment our patients desire to use. Although, we would draw the line at livestock.
As there are no options for selecting any of the popular e-pay methods such as Zelle, ApplePay, GooglePay, etc. my admin experience in Oemr tells me that simply adding an ID & name to a drop-down list won’t deposit funds into a patient’s account (although that would be ideal). So the question is; how to add a generic “e-pay” payment method to credit the patient’s account when they wish to use such methods? Or, is that beyond the capability of the admin tools and menu options available in Oemr?
IMO, it’s not a good business decision to surrender a 3-4% part of your income stream to Credit Card processing fees when there are no cost and 1% options available which process outside of Oemr as an ACH transaction and could be accepted and recorded the same way as cash or checks. I feel very strongly that we should be able to use them. What sayeth the powers that be?