Before starting multibilling

 

1. What you need to know

1. You must have with the permissions to open the window invoice maker profile.

2. You must have a cash register open.

3. All charges go to the extension 0 by default, to generate invoices you must create an extension for every taxable entity.

4. You can move charges among extensions as long as the charges don't belong to a remission.

5. There are two type of charges: manual and automatic. 

6. If you cancel a remission with advace payments applied, the advance payments are sent back to the extension 0 ann you have to move them again to the extension.

7. If you cancel the remission or the invoice, you can process again the remission and invoice in the smae extension.

8. You can choose the business partner that has the price list to use for capturing the payment, respecting the tax information of the patient who is requesting the invoice.

9. If the patient has pending requests the system will display the alert message "There are pending requests to apply. For more details verify the medical discharge (Clinic personnel) or close the encounter".

10. If the patient hasn't been discharged, the system will display the following message "The patient has not been discharged from the hospital" to let you know that you can continue applying charges to the patient.

11. The system shows the following alert message "Would you like to close the encounter?" (link to screeshot) when the patient has no pending requests to apply and has been discharged from the hospital.

12. You can verify the information of the encounter from the record inline menu to visualize:

admission date, discharge date and closing date.

13. Multibilling is used for collecting payments of hospitalization encounters.

14. The system will let you know automatically if there are advance payments available by displaying the alert message "There are advance payments in the extension 0. Would you like to use them?".

15. If you have a cashier profile you can only apply charges of service type, you can't add medical supplies; neither can cancel charges of the types medial supplies or medications (only the user who applied the charges can remove them). 

16. If you have an in-use encounter, you won't be able to use it in a different invoice process until the encounter becomes available-

17. When you apply a discount, this discount is applied on the total amount of the sale.

18. You can add comments to the invoice report print out or you can also group the charges by categories <<by filling out the Comments fields and selecting the checkbox Group by category.

19. You can visualize the medications administered to the patient (as a service) with the description: "Application of" (as a prefix) followed by the medication name, as long as you have the required configuration.

2. The benefits

- Allows you to generate invoices for all the charges applied to the patient encounter.

3. Start multibilling

To start multibilling, follow these steps:

1. In Multibilling window search for a patient and select it from the list of results:

2. Create a new extension where all of the insurance charges will be added:

3. Now go below and select this extension on Move to option, select those charges you will add to this extension and confirm :

4. Now select your extension on Current extension and click on gear icon (Process) to generate Sales receipt for this extension:

5. Confirm :

After finishing the steps listed above

You'll have done multibilling.

Congratulations!