Modify Charges

Description

In special situations it is desirable to make a change to the charge for a procedure. For example, a patient can only pay part of the charges or you choose to not charge a patient. The procedure charges for just this encounter will need to be modified. The objective is to adjust the charge for the special case while leaving the procedure charge in the database unchanged. The steps required to do this are:

1. Create an encounter
2. Add the procedures to the encounter

3. select the Modify Charge button
• opens a dialog (below)

The Encounter charges are listed in the table in the upper left corner of this new dialog. To make a change to one of the procedure charges:

4. select a procedure in the table with double-click of mouse
• causes the Edit section to be loaded with the procedure & charge


5. in the field labeled New ... enter the new charge


6. select the Apply Change button
• causes the charge in the procedure list to be changed


7. when finished modifying the charges ... select the Finished button or if the patient is paying cash for the encounter (see previous section) select the Debit Patient Account for Total Charge button.