If you haven't already done so, please read Fee Schedules Overview before proceeding.
Summary
The program gives you a tremendous degree of flexibility with a rich, multi-layered structure for determining what fees employer pay. Most basically, it carries a standard fee schedule which contains your "list prices": these are the fees you charge employers when no discounts are involved. The standard employer fee for everything you do is stored on the BILLING tab of the related medical activity records, and can be entered and changed from the medical activity table, and it is the fee schedule that is used by default for new companies. You don't have to do anything to put it into effect. You can also enter standard fees more directly using the Standard Fee Schedules window.
Some multi-clinic enterprises have even more complicated situations where they have, in effect, more than one "standard" fee schedule for companies. These can usually be handled by entering clinic or state specific fee schedules.
You are not limited to using standard fees. You can also enter special pricing for a company. This can be an across the board discount, or it can be override fees set up for specific activities. Special pricing is set up on an exception basis when you enter a new company and create its billing account.
Do you need even more control of prices? If you make an arrangement with an employer to charge a specific fee for a certain activity when performed on one category of visit, but not on others, you can even put in a special price for the activity on a company specific visit category protocol. And, if a you are billing a contract TPA or a lab for a range of services delivered to the company, you can enter a third party payer contract with its own special fees.
To begin review the following topics:
Tell the software to use standard employer fee schedule(default)
Tell the software to use a clinic or state fee schedule for employer fees
Copy the standard employer clinic fee schedule to a clinic, state or billing
Which Fee Will Be Used for Employer Services?
Enter Fee Schedules
Steps to Set Up the Standard Employer Fee Schedule
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On the Home Nav Bar
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Select Setup / Admin
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Setup Billing Setup.
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Select Standard Fee Schedules
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Select Employer tab.
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Highlight any item and click Change.
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In the field marked, Current Charge, enter the standard employer fee for this service.
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Click OK to save the amount. You will be returned to the [Standard Fee Schedule] window.
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Repeat steps 3 through 5 for each fee, to enter the fees for all the items on your list.
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Click Close to close the window.
Enter Special Pricing for an Employer
Print a fee schedule
To print the fee schedule, click the Print button in the lower right side of the Fee Schedule window.
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