tmccormi wrote on Wednesday, May 06, 2015:
While that is true, it’s rarely what a practice that is moving over wants to do.
They usually want a “conversion” of balances moved into OpenEMR, which is not too hard. We typically just create an “CPT Code” call “BALFWD” and make an new encounter with the last payment date as the “encounter date” and the balance as the charge amount.
Doing the same thing manually would work fine and attaching a patient ledger PDF from the old system as an attachment doc would provide history.
–Tony