teryhill wrote on Thursday, March 31, 2016:
Can anyone tell me what the “Mark as Billed” Button is for in the encounter? It would seam logical to me to press that button and make the encounter patient responsible. I did make a change to a customer that does not bill insurance (acupuncturist) so that they could make the entire encounter patient responsible.
Terry
visolveemr wrote on Friday, April 01, 2016:
Hi Terry,
Greetings from Visolve…!
To directly answer your posted question on “Can anyone tell me what the “Mark as Billed” Button is for in the encounter?”
The “Mark as Billed" button provides the ability to mark an encounter as billed directly from the Fee Sheet, if there are no charges (Price =0) for the code.
As per the other informationt that you have mentioend, it seems to be right from our perspective.
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fsgl wrote on Friday, April 01, 2016:
“Marked as Billed” doesn’t remove the claim from the Billing Manager, but it does send the charge to Patient Statement.
“Marked as Cleared” must be clicked to remove the claim from the Billing Manager.
teryhill wrote on Friday, April 01, 2016:
If we gave it a “Special Insurance Name” Like “Self-Pay” we could look for that and mark it as billed, patient responsible and not show it on the billing screen. The name could be a global flag.
Terry
fsgl wrote on Friday, April 01, 2016:
Patients without insurance are not always self-paying.
Sometimes a friend, family member or community will be the guarantor, so it would be very nice if this can be accommodated as well in Patient Statement.
If the local church is the guarantor, the address for the Patient Statement ideally should be that of the church.
“No Insurance” would be a broader & more inclusive category.
This designation should be available in the Patient Summary, rather than an option in Globals; because US practices have both types of patient.
I don’t think that you are suggesting a control from Globals, but Patient Summary affords greater flexibility & finer granular control.
teryhill wrote on Friday, April 01, 2016:
My thought is that the generic insurance company would just trigger the code to make the encounters patient responsible. The naming of it does not matter as long as the code knows what to look for (the use of the global name). The guarantor stuff is another path that has been and continues to be discussed. I have used “In Care Of” in the demographics to help with the patient statement for groups to get the statement and still have a patient reference.
Good thoughts and Ideas.
Thanks
Terry
fsgl wrote on Friday, April 01, 2016:
If “No Insurance” is a generic insurer which bypasses the Billing Module & sends the balance to Patient Statement, would be nice to have the guarantor in the address part of Insurance in Demographics.
There are times when a practice needs to send mail directly to a patient, e.g., recall postcards for annual checkups (or send a copy of the last pair of glasses or rx for eye drops). In those cases “C/O” works less well.