Collecting patient payments are critical for all health care organizations. Patient Remittances provides the ability to collect these payments while the patient is present. These payments types could be for deposits, copayments, co-insurance, previous balances, etc.
Patient Remittances
Remittance Type Payments/Refunds
When launching the Patient Remittances application, the remittance amount can default the patient’s liability or can be manually entered depending on the amount that is being collected from the patient.
In addition, there is the ability to select a refund remittance type if a credit is owed to the patient.
Payment Type
Patient Remittances provides the ability to tie the remittance to your organization payment types which can be associated to the correct General Ledger accounts or Patient Accounting transactions.
Applying Selfpay Discount/Adjustment
There may be times when your organization chooses to apply a selfpay discount or adjustment for the patient at the time of remittance collection. These manual adjustments can be applied as a percentage as well as a specified amount.
Split Payments
At times patients may choose to pay their outstanding balance by multiple payment methods such as cash and credit cards or multiple credit cards.
Point of Sale (POS) Integration
Patient Remittance offers the ability to connect to point of sale credit card devices. These devices integrate with the Patient Remittance application with a successful transaction and auto submits the remittance to the patient accounting system.
Remittance Receipts
Once a remittance is processed a receipt displays which can be printed and given to the patient.
