Assistant's Fees

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Include Assistant's Fee

Genie allows you to add an assistant's fee to an invoice by clicking on the Include Assistant's Fee button.

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Provisos:

•At least one of the items on the invoice must include the text "(Assist)" in the Description field, or have 'Assistant Billable' ticked in the Billing Items record (Open > Billing Items).

 

•If you add your own item numbers which you want to attract an assistant's fee then you will need to tick Assistant Billable in the Billing Items record (Open > Billing Items).

 

•The assistant must have a record in your Address Book (see the Open Menu Chapter).

 

When you click on the Include Assistant's Fee button you will be asked to find the provider in your Address Book.

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Enter the first few letters of the assistant's name, then press OK to search the Address Book and select the assistant.

 

Once you have selected the assistant, the window below will appear asking what fee you would like to insert for the assistant.

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The choices are, 1/5th of the surgeon's fee, the permissible Medicare Schedule Fee, or the permissible Private Fund Fee if the patient is privately insured, and you have imported the Fund's Schedule (see Importing Fund Schedules).

 

Select the fee to charge and then click OK.

Invoice as Assistant

The Invoice as Asst. button allows you to create an invoice for when your doctor was an assistant for a procedure and does their own invoicing for this.

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Provisos:

•At least one of the items on the invoice must include the text "(Assist)" in the Description field, or have 'Assistant Billable' ticked in the Billing Items record (Open > Billing Items).

 

•If you add your own item numbers which you want to attract an assistant's fee then you will need to tick Assistant Billable in the Billing Items record (Open > Billing Items).

 

•The surgeon who performed the procedure must have a record in your Address Book (see the Open Menu Chapter).

 

When you click on the Invoice as Asst. button you will be asked to search for the surgeon who performed the procedure in your Address book.

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Enter the first few letters of the surgeons name and press OK, to search the Address Book and select the surgeon.

 

Once you have selected the Surgeon, the window below will appear asking what fee you would like to insert for the assistant's fee.

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The choices are the same as when Including an Assistants Fee (see Including Assistants Fee above).

 

Select the fee to charge and click OK.

 

You will notice that the procedure item number has been replaced in the invoice by either item number 51300 or 51303, depending on the fee of the procedure item number.

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The surgeons name will be inserted into the Notes field of the invoice, as well as the surgeons provider number (if entered in their Address Book entry) and the item number for the operation.