Is that found in the feesheet? it seemed like i had to pick a particular encounter to open that. I just want to make a global change such that when she adds a new patient, or a new encounter for an old patient, it uses the new rate
Thanks
Is that found in the feesheet? it seemed like i had to pick a particular encounter to open that. I just want to make a global change such that when she adds a new patient, or a new encounter for an old patient, it uses the new rate
Thanks
Admin->Coding->Codes
you can search for the code and update the fees one by one
@stephenwaite would changing the rate affect older encounters or the new ones only ?
It wonât affect the fees for encounters already saved to the database. It would affect any new additions in the fee sheet so it could be an older encounter that doesnât have a fee sheet entry for the code.
If you can believe it, Iâm only looking into this now(!)
Thanks for your explanations.
So we have a kind of particular situation here, which is that we are on a pretty old version, (4.2.0?) and for example I see âAdministrationâ, not âAdminâ, and within that I see âCodesâ, not âCodingâ, and in âCodesâ I see no dollar values anywhere. They must be somewhere, though.
I wouldnât bother you, except I am going around in circles, looking at the online manual, and still not finding where I put her global rate. Appears to be the only rate she uses for everything, if I understand it correctly
Happy to keep digging if you can point me to the right place. I know I shouldnât be on such an old version, but given that itâs all working for her purposes, I donât want to change it right now
Thanks for any assistance you can give
Admin->Codes works, see the bottom line in the image below for how you can edit a code and change the fee
Hi @leongruenbaum -
The codes module has indeed changed some over the past release versions but if the screen with its control objects basically matches the picture youâre looking at it will function the same.
@stephen talks about the service fees which are used in the fee sheet with the assumption that your OpenEMR system has service fees coded into the CPT (or other) service codes. But it sounds like that may not be the case here. When you say âshe adds a new patient, or a new encounter for an old patient, it uses the new rateâ, which rate is that? Can you send a screenshot of where the rate appears in a new encounter?
The situation you describe does not actually name what rate your Dr uses. Do you know how she is entering the rate? Do you know what steps she uses to add the fee?
OpenEMR will permit, if the fees of the codes have not been configured per @stephenâs descriptions, for the user to manually add the fee for a service to an individual patientâs fee sheet. If thatâs how she does it, there is no global fee to set.
If you look in this doc
https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/A_Generic_Medical_Encounter_Workflow_in_OpenEMR_6.1
step 2 of section 4 should give some background information on how fees are used. If this appears to relate to the process you are asking about Iâd be happy to go into more detail.
Best- Harley