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Hi,

How does one go about billing/recording an incidental cost for a patient? This would be for an item that would never be submitted or billed to insurance, but rather just billed straight to the patient. We want to keep track of these items, but don't want them to be part of the exports batches that get sent to Office Ally (or whomever).

Thanks.

Dear GoBruins,

You could create a bill manually but not include it in the batch of bills exported to your clearing house. To build a file for export instead of chooseing the option to export all bills select the first bill to be sent to the clearing house in that batch then go back and select the next bill to include. Be sure to say no you do not want to delete the first bill and start fresh. This will append the file with the second bill exported. Continue until you have appended the file with all the bills you wish to send to the clearinghouse. Then upload or send the file containing only the bills you need to send to the clearing house.

I hope this helps.

Claire

Thank you, Claire.