Skill Sharpener

Exercise 1—Set up a code-specific plan.

One of your patients has insurance through an employer that uses a code-specific insurance plan. You must set up the plan in the software.

To set up a plan that offers code-specific coverage:

  1. Select Lists > Employer/plans. The Employer/Plan Pick List window is displayed. 

  2. Select Ben & Jerry’s and click OK. The Employer/Plan Definition window is displayed. 

  3. Click Estimating. The Benefit Table window for the employer is displayed. 

  4. Click Code-specific estimating. The Benefit Details for plan Ben & Jerry’s window is displayed. 

  5. Click Add new tx code and enter data for a new transaction code. 

  6. Select a payment method from the Patient Payment Method section: Patient pays any amount that the insurance doesn’t pay, including any amount in excess of UCR.

  7. Select a payment method from the Insurance payment method section: Percentage.

  8. In the Other insurance information section:

  1. Click OK.

  2. When you are finished, reset the tutorial data.

 

Related Topics

Methods of Estimating Insurance

Code-Specific Estimating by Plan

Benefit-Table Estimating by Plan

Copying Code-Specific Estimating Information