[Gnumed-devel] gnumed billing

[Jim Busser]

A question to help in further development of a billing white paper 
(taking form at David Grant's TWiki.)

Does it make sense to base billing around a table of "billable items", 
with the "billable items" table getting "fed" from:
- appointments, where one or more billable activities, and/ or supply 
charges (for example the cost of vaccines) can be entered
- billable "to do" tasks which might originate independently of any 
appointment (e.g. forms completion, transfer of records [copies] to a 
new physician)
- patient care that was delivered out of office (home or nursing home 
visits; hospital care)
- other professional work (service on advisory groups; medical legal 
consulting etc; such items may, or may not, have been entered as 
appointments) --- here the responsible organisation would get invoiced
- inventory sale of surplus supplies, and/or rental of equipment, to a 
different medical office - here again the responsible "organisation" 
would get invoiced
- inventory consumption, by the office, of supplies that are worth 
tracking, but which may not be billable to patients --- here the office 
would, for inventory tracking purposes and costing, be designated the 
payee