Searching the Fee Schedule

If you are unsure of what item number to charge, you can search the Billing Items table (Open > Billing Items) for an appropriate item number by clicking on the Search Fee Schedule button at the bottom of the new item window.

This will open a Search window allowing you to search on either the item number or the description.

For example, you want to invoice for a colonoscopy but you can't remember the exact item number but you know that it starts with "3209". You can enter this in the Item field of the Search window and this will find all items beginning with "3209".

If you have no idea what the item number is, then you can search for a word that you think will be in the description, in this case,“colonoscopy ”. If you just enter “colonoscopy” into the Description field then Genie will search the Billing Items table for a record whose Description field starts with “colonoscopy”. It is unlikely to find anything.

Instead, we could use the wildcard character, "@", before "colonoscopy". During a search the wildcard character can represent one or many characters. By searching for "@colonoscopy" Genie will find any record with "colonoscopy" anywhere in its description.

In this particular case it finds ten matching records. Select the item you want to invoice and click the OK button.

The selected Item Number will be inserted into the Item field of the new item window.