Enable Patient Poverty Alerts

The Patient Responsibility alert informs you that, based on the patient's head-of-household information, the patient is placed on a patient responsibility schedule. The alert includes the patient responsibility schedule name, percentage of patient responsibility, family size, income, poverty percentage, and poverty category.

The Percent of Poverty alert informs you either of the following:

• If the patient has head-of-household information, the alert includes the poverty percentage, poverty category, family size, and income. This alert displays only when no payers have been configured for the patient responsibility schedule.
  Note: If payers have been configured, then the Patient Responsibility alert displays instead.

  

• If the patient lacks head-of-household information, the alert notes that the patient lacks the information needed to calculate the poverty percentage and category.
  

  To enable the Patient Responsibility alert, do the following:

• In Practice Preferences, select Alerts in the Preferences List, and then select the Show alerts every time a chart, encounter, or account is accessed check box.
  Note: Make sure there are payers attached to the patient responsibility schedule in the Patient Responsibility master file.