[MEDITECH-L] Statements

[Hacker, Carolyn]

I am looking for someone that is on Client Server that could answer a couple of questions regarding the building of statements. Please email me your name and phone # if you can assist.

The specific questions are:
When a next collection event date has been set on an account, if a payment (receipt) is processed, does that change the collection event date?

If you have an account that has received an original statement and a payment is not received within the minimum # of days before the second statement is to process, how do you avoid having a statement generate on the account?

Carolyn L Hacker

IS Applications Analyst
Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital

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[Scaccia, Kimberly]

When a next collection event date has been set on an account, if a
payment (receipt) is processed, does that change the collection event
date?

This depends on your Collection Group Dictionary settings - If
your Group is set up with Delay After Event Days then yes (which is what
I have always seen). So, for example, Patient presents with Aetna
Insurance, that Group is set up for 15 days for the first event. The
Bill drops on the 01/01/08 and the NCED schedules itself for 01/15/08.
A payment is received on 01/14/08 so the money drops to the Self Pay
bucket. The group for that bucket says delay = 2 so it schedules for
01/16/08 for the NCED.... make sense?

If you have an account that has received an original statement and a
payment is not received within the minimum # of days before the second
statement is to process, how do you avoid having a statement generate on
the account?

- not sure why you would want to suppress a statement if a
payment is not received... I would think that would be all the more
reason you would want to send one... But, you could do a Event Select
(page two of the group) to see if you can identify those accounts with
no payment and set it to Event of No Stmt/Letter.

Kim Scaccia, System Admin
Recovery Reimbursement
Patient Business & Financial Services
Halifax Medical Center
386-226-4590 opt 1 ext 2018