I am trying to figure out some of the billing reports, but am getting confused. I have also gotten a bit concerned I may be missing something important.
I see there are the ar_activity, ar_sessions, payments, drug_sales, and billing tables. It’s not clear to me why there are so many tables. I haven’t been able to glean very much from the architecture overview, but maybe I need accounting experience to understand it.
The more I think about it, I guess I am looking to understand what data goes where, and why.
Perhaps I need to be walked through a patient encounter -> billing -> insurance adjustment and payment process.
At any rate, I am not sure I am being clear with my question: I am not terribly certain which questions to ask right now.
I’ll be happy to help. We can do it here (I doubt you are alone) or offline if you want to contact me directly. I am not any expert on WHERE stuff goes (files and tables and all that) so much as WHY, but I’ll give it my best shot. Best suggestion is to contact me for a hand-hold through one process by phone and we’ll document that afterwords. And best way to do the phone thing is to email me at least 24 hours in advance with a proposed callback time by me (with some tolerance - I have to share the phone and you plan to have an available “test” patient already setup. We’ll do the full encounter through billing to EOB and multi-payer closeout. Shouldn’t need more than an hour.
Joe,
would you know(or have any document on hand to share), how openEMR handles “cash” payments? or partial payment?
The only thing I see is “Biling” and there you select company /insurance to send the bill…well how do you check whether coPay is PAID or if it is “cash”(no insurance for patient), how do you handle that in “Billing”.
and you plan to have an available “test” patient already setup. We’ll do the full encounter through billing to EOB and multi-payer closeout. Shouldn’t need more than an hour.