Managing Your Practice > Entering Accounts Receivable > Processing a Bulk Payment for Multiple Claims
When you use the Bulk Payment Entry feature, individual payments appear in each patient’s ledger as BULKIP and BULKIPS.
A BULKIP or BULKIPS entry cannot be edited from the ledger. A message is displayed telling you that the entry must be removed and re-added from the Bulk Payment Entry window. This ensures that a bulk payment's amount corresponds correctly with the individual entries.
Use the Add ledger adjustment button in the Bulk Payment Entry window to post patient write-offs and adjustments when entering bulk insurance payments.
If an insurance company discovers they overpaid $100 on a check for patient John Doe, instead of requesting a $100 reimbursement from your office, they subtract the $100 from the bulk check. The amount of the check they send you is $900, but the check shows $1000 in insurance payments.
All patients must be credited for their payments, but the total for patient payments does not balance with the amount of the check unless an adjustment is made to John Doe's account for the $100 overpayment.
By using the Add bulk payment adjustment feature, you can post an adjusting entry directly to a patient's ledger.
Processing a Bulk Payment for Multiple Claims
Adjusting Bulk Payment Entries
Balancing and Correcting Bulk Payments
Daily Deposit Detail Reporting