Refund

[juggernautsei (Sherwin Gaddis)]

Posting a patient Refund

tmccormi wrote on Tuesday, February 07, 2012: Thanks, though actually Jack, I understand double entry accounting just fine (I wrote an entire General Ledger system once for a small city in Texas).  Try designing a Trail Balance report for gov't fund accounting Since OpenEMR still lacks in some fundamental accounting results I was wonder how other people actually posted this kinds of refunds and how they recorded them… the actual method used in OpenEMR versus the GAAP -Tony

I have read the above thread.
I have a request for a way to record a refund. Per Rod, the system excepts negative payments.
Is there a way to label the payment refund?

Would it be as simple as adding the refund label to the drop down list of payment types?

[juggernautsei (Sherwin Gaddis)]

I have been poking around the edges. Anyone have a firm grasp on how a refund should display in the system?

[stephenwaite]

hi @juggernautsei, yes, you’re on the right track,

clicking save yields

[juggernautsei (Sherwin Gaddis)]

This is great! I will show this to the users. Does this show on the patient ledger?

Thank you!

[stephenwaite]

yes,

[juggernautsei (Sherwin Gaddis)]

Excellent!
The EU takes prepayments and asked.

Prepayment

An action where we can apply the prepayment for the actual date of service instead of it showing as a total deduction for any outstanding balances at the bottom.
Sometimes it creates an impression that there still credit balance for the patient specifically if the whole history of that patient is not extracted where that prepayment is to be applied.

[stephenwaite]

EU is European Union or Estadas Unidos?

you have to have some value in the adjust column and if it’s 0 it has to be 0.00