Sometimes the cost of a good or service
will be paid by more than one person; for example, an insurance company may pay
a portion, while the patient pays the remainder.
To create a multi-payer invoice:
- Open the invoice entry window (Client
billing on the toolbar), select the practitioner, patient and third party.
- Enter the policy and claim
numbers if they were not populated from the client card.
- Add any notes if applicable.
- Fill in the fee information (Code
- from the dropdown, description, modifiers, quantity, and amount).
- Click the payer dropdown,
select ‘multi’, a new window will open. (If multi is already selected, right
click for the window to open).
- Click add to insert another
row.
- Select the third party from the
payer drop down.
- Edit the percentages as
appropriate, the amounts will be calculated according to the %.
- Click ok.
- From here,
- Click done – opens the confirm
payer details window and then saves the invoice on the client account summary.
- Click print – the confirm payer
details window and then select which payer invoice you want to print, then the
print window will open.
- Click payment – opens the
confirm payer details window and then the payment entry window to apply
payment.