Payments & Status

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Status Phrases

 

Provided the ability to save custom status phrases. Click <Edit Lookup List> from the Status dropdown box on the top of the data entry screen. The original phrases are deemed built-in and are not editable and can't be reordered. New phrases can be set to close the account, reopen it, or do nothing.

 

Receipts

 

Provided a button to print a basic receipt for any individual payment from a patient's account without printing the whole account again (on the Payments tab). This is just to the left of the Add button above the Bank column.
Provided a button to print a generic receipt for a Miscellaneous payment and for a Batch payment. The button is found on the bottom of the respective editing windows.

 

Payment Types

 

Provided the ability to edit the list of Payment Types as a lookup list. For each payment type you can specify whether such payments should appear on a banking slip. New payment types may be added and redundant ones deleted.

 

Co-Payments

 

Adjusted the entry of payments to allow tabbing into the Co-payment checkbox. This can then be ticked or unticked using the keyboard spacebar.
When entering a co-payment, the b shortcut inserts the co-payment amount owing, and if entering a standard payment, the b shortcut enters the total owing excluding the co-payment. Previously the total owing was entered in both cases, without reference to the co-payment amount.
When printing a receipt for a co-payment, the appropriate message will be inserted depending on whether the co-payment is paid, part paid or overdue. Previously it was assumed to be either not paid, or fully paid if any amount had been received from any source.

 

Prepaid Accounts

 

If a payment is entered before the account is issued/printed (no Account Date exists), the status is changed to 'Prepaid (in part/in full) - not yet issued', and the account is left open. The status should then be changed manually to close the account.

 

Miscellaneous

 

Added a RECALC button to the payments tab to recalculate the amount owing and payment status in the rare event that this is not updated automatically.
After deleting a payment, the Payment Status is set to either 'Awaiting payment' or 'Overdue' depending on the time since the Account Date. Previously the status was set to the generic note 'Unpaid'.
When deleting a batch payment, the word DELETE must be entered. Previously a click was enough.

 

Payment Reports

 

Displayed GST in the printed List of Payments (and removed the redundant Type column).
Provided the ability to select one of several optional fields to show on the List of Payments report (replaces previously mandatory DrsLogNumber). Select the field in the Options form - Banking page. Any valid field name may be entered, although only a few are provided in the list.
Added a GST column to the Group Practice Payment Summary. This allows easily identifying which doctors received GST within a specified time period.
Added optional report notes to the top of the brief and detailed GST reports.