Patient Account Overview

This article is part of the systems administration guide. You will require administration access to view the pages mentioned in this article.

Overview

Patient Accounts are divided to different accounts who are responsible for paying the invoice. The person responsible for the payment is called: Guarantor.

By default, CareRight has 6 Patient Accounts:

1. Private - Used for Patient Interactive Claims (PCI). Up to 5 Private Accounts can be configured - see Edit Private Accounts.  Private Account Types can be used when Providers have different rates for different situation/ different classes of Patients i.e. Concession Rates, Military personal etc
2. Workers Compensation -
3. Legal - 
4. Medicare - Account used for Medicare Bulk Billing Services
5. DVA - 
6. Health Fund - Account used for claiming against private health funds , such as In Patient Medical Claims (IMC) In Hospital Claim (IHC)

To assign a rate table to the Patient Account  see: Assign rate table to Patient Account.