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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Introducing myself and questions on billing/accountin
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Karsten Hilbert |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Introducing myself and questions on billing/accounting |
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Thu, 19 May 2011 10:58:05 +0200 |
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On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 04:25:52PM -0700, Chris Travers wrote:
> > - where charges arise as part of (during) the delivery of care, it is
> > reasonable that it be some record in the EMR that gives rise to the
> > billing. This is important for a couple of reasons:
> > - to provide / channel / supply data needed for the billing
> > - where the above cannot be done automatically, to assist a lookup
> > - as an audit check of missed billings
> > - to be able to reference, if questioned, the actually-delivered
> > service
>
> In GNUmed terms this is an "encounter," even if the patient isn't
> actually encountered, is it not?
Indeed. That's why it is not called a *patient* encounter.
It's more useful to think of it in terms of
someone somewhere had contact with the EMR of a patient
on behalf of the patient
:-)
> The first is something like 'We just got these H1N1 vaccines in and
> trying to bill for them but the it's is not showing up in the list.'
> In this case, the best option IMO is to have an 'unknown good/service'
> record which can be annotated, and let accounting adjust it in the
> process of the entry. You want to capture the data as quickly as
> possible and with as much data as possible.
+1
> This human review is absolutely critical in every business I have ever
> looked at.
+1
Karsten
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- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Introducing myself and questions on billing/accounting, Chris Travers, 2011/05/18
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Introducing myself and questions on billing/accounting, Jim Busser, 2011/05/18
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Introducing myself and questions on billing/accounting, Sebastian Hilbert, 2011/05/19
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Introducing myself and questions on billing/accounting, Jim Busser, 2011/05/19
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Introducing myself and questions on billing/accounting, Karsten Hilbert, 2011/05/19
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- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Introducing myself and questions on billing/accounting, Sebastian Hilbert, 2011/05/19
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Introducing myself and questions on billing/accounting, Karsten Hilbert, 2011/05/19
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Introducing myself and questions on billing/accounting, Karsten Hilbert, 2011/05/19
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- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Introducing myself and questions on billing/accounting, Jim Busser, 2011/05/20
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Introducing myself and questions on billing/accounting, Karsten Hilbert, 2011/05/20