Billing to Alternate Primary Payors

OpenEMR Development
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tmccormi wrote on Wednesday, March 04, 2015:

I have several customers that need to be able to select and track billing for multiple Primary payors. That is, a single patient may need to have Primary insurance billed to two or more different insurance companies. Such as Medical (commercial) -vs- Mental health (medicaid)

The Primary->Secondary-Tertiary chain is deeply embedded everywhere. Any off-the-wall thoughts on how this can be done (without creating duplicate patient records)?

I’d like to just treat alternate payors like the system treats “Old Primary” except make them visible in demographics and available for current billing as a choice in the billing_report.php screen.

Ideas?

–Tony

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sunsetsystems wrote on Wednesday, March 04, 2015:

I assume you are looking to do development to support this?

If so, one approach is to add a column to the insurance_data table to differentiate between multiple insurance setups for the same pid. In form_encounter add a column to specify which is used. Change all the applicable code accordingly.

Rod
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/