This is a little different philosophy that has worked well for me over the past 30 years.
Billing for commercial insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid, have no need for "multiple rate" billing. Adjustments/write-offs, bring the payments into compliance with the charge and provides a powerful tool to assess performance in the accounts receivables. Industrial billing, where one contracts to with an employer to do specific services at a set price uses modification of the last 2 characters in the CPT code AND includes the company name in the description. Thanks, thurman > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardhats- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nancy Anthracite > Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 1:11 PM > To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] differential charging for diagnostic tests > > I believe the majority of the billing is not done within VistA. The > recent > billing patches, to my knowledge, only gather together information for a > third party billing service to use to process a claim, and it may not even > include charges at all, as I believe that is probably handled by the > processing entity or information provided to that entity separately. Even > if > there are charges withing VistA, I doubt there are any rates that would > differ from patient to patient. > > On Friday 04 February 2005 07:22 am, Nick James wrote: > > can multople rates be maintained by VistA? > > > > If the charges applicable for a test are to be based > > on the patient type, and multiple rates apply for the > > same test depending on the patient type. > > > > If so how is it defined and which file is it stored in? > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > All your favorites on one personal page - Try My Yahoo! > > http://my.yahoo.com > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting > > Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time > > by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. > > Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl > > _______________________________________________ > > Hardhats-members mailing list > > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > -- > Nancy Anthracite > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting > Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time > by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. > Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
