Fee Schedules

To set up fee schedules for your payors, click the Fee Schedules button in the upper right-hand corner of the Charges section of the Maintenance application. These fee schedules can then be assigned to patients in the Patient Information section of the Front Desk application.


Create a Fee Schedule

  1. Click the New button in the Fee Schedules dialog box.
  2. Enter a new fee schedule name in the Enter new fee schedule name dialog box. A fee schedule name is typically the name of the payor.
  3. Choose whether to create a new fee schedule from scratch, or to copy an existing fee schedule. If copying, select one from the Schedule to Copy drop-down menu.
  4. Click the OK button.
  5. To select the fees that you would like to disallow for this payor, check the boxes in the Disallow column of the fee list. Only those fees with a check mark in the Disallow column are disallowed for your chosen payor.
  6. Click the Exit button.

Delete a Fee Schedule

  1. Select the fee schedule to delete from the Schedule Name drop-down menu.
  2. Click the Delete button. A dialog box appears to verify the deletion. Click Yes to delete.

Change the dollar amount of an allowed or charged fee

  1. Click the dollar amount in the Amount column of the fee list.
  2. Type the new amount.

This amount only applies to the fee schedule selected in the Schedule Name drop-down menu.

NOTE:  
If you wish to make changes to a chart item amount, allowed amount, or code modfier in ALL fee schedules, Charges.