I have a user that is Clerk that needs to be able to access the fee sheet for any encounter for billing purposes. But I learned that the fee sheet is only available to users who can view encounters and as the office clerk who only registers patients, creates appointments and accepts payment they do not need access to the Nurse or Doctors notes in the encounter.
How would I go about making the change to allow this user to view and edit the fee sheets for any encounter in the system.
Hi @gjohnson92
OpenEMR’s access controls are very complex and have not been explicitly diagrammed to any great extent. And some of them are associated with others and cannot be separated from them.
What you’re going to have to do is go over the materials in the wiki to learn how to test the ACLs then experiment and find the one(s) you want.
Here are some handy links to start with; others may be found from the search tool at the bottom of each wiki page.
In my experience, reimbursement is determined by the medical complexity of each patient encounter. The use of appropriate ICD-10, CPT, and HCPCS codes depends on the clinical documentation.
Can you please describe your work flow? this will help understand your needs
Yeah during my reading I found out that the fee sheet is tired directly to the encounters and you can only view them if you have full access to that encounter.
An encounter is created and a registration fee is paid
Patient continues encounter and is assessed by provider
Patient returns to clerk to pay for any necessary procedures before they take place.
After payment patient goest back to provider to have service rendered.
Essentially I’m needing a way that the clerk can access the fee sheet so that they can add the registration fee to it so that I can be payed. The other ICD-10 or CPT codes can afterward be added by the provider.