thank you all for your replies.
we're on a hybrid approach, some in batches, some individually.
by the way, what are you all doing with uninsured patients? we previously had a dummy insurance called "selfpay" to let our billing company know, however, caused some confusion on lab slips where patients were billed directly rather than billing us at client rates. now have option to check box for "no insurance" but old patients are unmigrated as "selfpay". weighing options to eliminate that dummy insurance and use the "no insurance" checkbox (which leaves a blank on demographics/orders) or create a new fake codified "selfpay" insurance to migrate everyone to (about 1/3 of my patients).
ps, has anyone noted that if you inactivate an insurance it still shows up on orders/invoices...looks like a glitch that will need correcting.
